CVE-2021-31854: A command Injection Vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Windows prior to 5.7.5 allows local users to inject arbitrary shell code into the file cleanup.exe…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.02%

59.0th percentile

A command Injection Vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Windows prior to 5.7.5 allows local users to inject arbitrary shell code into the file cleanup.exe. The malicious clean.exe file is placed into the relevant folder and executed by running the McAfee Agent deployment feature located in the System Tree. An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to obtain a reverse shell which can lead to privilege escalation to obtain root privileges.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	agent	< 5.7.5	5.7.5
mcafee_llc	mcafee_agent_for_windows	>= unspecified < 5.7.5	5.7.5

CVSS provenance

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

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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