CVE-2022-0166: A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR…

PriorityP347high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.97%

85.5th percentile

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.

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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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