CVE-2020-7314

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee DXL for Mac

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Sep 10, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee DXL for Mac shipped with MAMcAfee LLC	5.6.x to before 5.6.6Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10325

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