CVE-2021-31836

Improper Privilege Management in MA for Windows

State
Published
Severity
5.6 Medium
Published
Sep 22, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Apr 27, 2021

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Description

Improper privilege management vulnerability in maconfig for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information. The utility was able to be run from any location on the file system and by a low privileged user.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Ntrellix

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
McAfee Agent for WindowsMcAfee,LLC
  • before 5.7.4Affected

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