CVE-2020-7254: 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…

PriorityP338high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.30%

21.6th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	advanced_threat_defense	>= 4.0 < 4.8.2	4.8.2
mcafee_llc	mcafee_advanced_threat_defense	>= 4.x < 4.8.2	4.8.2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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