CVE-2022-1256 - Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows

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HIGH

Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows

Published Apr 14, 2022

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.26%

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with System privileges through manipulation of symbolic links.

Affected products

Vendor McAfee,LLC Product McAfee Agent for Windows Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <5.7.6

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

McAfee,LLC

McAfee Agent for Windows

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<5.7.6

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.26% 0.00260

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 4, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00260

Score over time

2022-2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (8 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 4, 2026	0.26% (0.00260)	16.07th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.25% (0.00250)	15.99th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00046)	11.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 27, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.44th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 15, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)