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 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - trellixpsirt@trellix.com

Published

2022-01-19

Last modified

2024-08-02

Weaknesses

CWE-427

Affected products

• Agent (Mcafee)
• Mcafee Agent For Windows (Mcafeellc)

References

• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10378
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/287178