CVE-2019-3592

MA for Windows update addresses weak directory permissions

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Jul 18, 2019
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2019

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) before 5.6.1 HF3, allows local administrator users to potentially disable some McAfee processes by manipulating the MA directory control and placing a carefully constructed file in the MA directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.2 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Agent (MA)McAfee, LLC	5.x to before 5.6.1 HF3Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10288

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