CVE-2020-7293

published 2020-09-15

CVE-2020-7293: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the…

Priority P3 46 critical 9 CVSS 3.1

AV A AC L PR L UI N S C C H I H A H

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	mcafee_web_gateway	>= unspecified < 9.2.1	9.2.1
mcafee	web_gateway	>= 7.8.0 < 7.8.2.23	7.8.2.23
mcafee	web_gateway	>= 8.2.0 < 8.2.11	8.2.11
mcafee	web_gateway	>= 9.0.0 < 9.2.3	9.2.3

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.0 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.7 HIGH AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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