McAfee Agent Insecure usage of temporary files vulnerability

published 2018-12-13 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-18454

cvss: 3.7; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits: 0; none known

Denial of Service through Resource Depletion vulnerability in the agent in non-Windows McAfee Agent (MA) 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via knowledge of the internal trust mechanism.

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Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	3.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
NVD	3.0	7.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.4	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) non-Windows non-Windows versions

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-6707
NVD CVE-2018-6707

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