CVE-2018-6674

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - trellixpsirt@trellix.com

Published

2018-05-25

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-264, CWE-269, CWE-274, CWE-311

Affected products

• Virusscan Enterprise (Mcafee)
• Virusscan Enterprise Vse (Mcafee Llc)

References

• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237