McAfee Agent for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability

published 2018-12-12 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-18451

cvss: 4.7; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits: 0; none known

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

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Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-377 DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10259

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-6704
NVD CVE-2018-6704

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