CVE-2021-23885

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) UI

State: Published
Severity: 9.0 Critical
Published: Feb 17, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 12, 2021

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the troubleshooting page.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Web Gateway (MWG)McAfee,LLC	before 9.2.8Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10349

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