CVE-2018-6674: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to…

PriorityP412low3.9CVSS 3.0

AVPACLPRHUINSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.18%

7.8th percentile

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	virusscan_enterprise	—	—
mcafee_llc	virusscan_enterprise	>= 8.8 < 8.8 Patch 13	8.8 Patch 13

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.03.9LOWCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM

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