Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee Agent

published 2020-03-12 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-28380

cvss: 5.7; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits: 0; none known

Improper access control vulnerability in masvc.exe in McAfee Agent (MA) prior to 5.6.4 allows local users with administrator privileges to disable self-protection via a McAfee supplied command-line utility.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee, LLC McAfee Agent (MA) 5.6.4

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	4.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

McAfee, LLC McAfee Agent (MA)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10312

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7253
NVD CVE-2020-7253

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Summary