CVE-2021-31836

published 2021-09-22

CVE-2021-31836: 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…

Priority P4 29 high 7.1 CVSS 3.1

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

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	mcafee_agent	< 5.7.4	5.7.4
mcafee_llc	mcafee_agent_for_windows	>= unspecified < 5.7.4	5.7.4

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 3.6 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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