CVE-2020-7254

Privilege escalation in Advanced Threat Defense

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Mar 12, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD)McAfee, LLC	4.x to before 4.8.2Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10311

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