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CVE-2021-31847

Improper privilege management in repair process of MA for Windows PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Improper access control vulnerability in the repair process for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 could allow a local attacker to perform a DLL preloading attack using unsigned DLLs. This would result in elevation of privileges and the ability to execute arbitrary code as the system user, through not correctly protecting a temporary directory used in the repair process and not checking the DLL signature.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
McAfee,LLC / McAfee Agent for Windowsaffected unspecified before 5.7.4

CWE

CWE-269, CWE-347

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.