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CVE-2022-1256

Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
McAfee,LLC / McAfee Agent for Windowsaffected unspecified before 5.7.6

CWE

CWE-269

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.