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

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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 Agent for Windows

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<5.7.6

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-59

References (1)

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10382
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10382		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner trellix

Published Apr 14, 2022

Updated Aug 2, 2024

Reserved Apr 6, 2022

Link CVE-2022-1256

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2022-1256

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2022-1256