CVE-2021-23885

published 2021-02-17

CVE-2021-23885: Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User…

Priority P3 50 high 8.8 CVSS 3.1

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

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	web_gateway	< 8.2.17	8.2.17
mcafee	web_gateway	>= 10.0 < 10.0.4	10.0.4
mcafee	web_gateway	>= 9.2 < 9.2.8	9.2.8
mcafee_llc	mcafee_web_gateway	>= unspecified < 9.2.8	9.2.8

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 9.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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