Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows

published 2022-04-14 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-24589

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee,LLC McAfee Agent for Windows 5.7.6

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Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

McAfee,LLC McAfee Agent for Windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10382

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-1256
NVD CVE-2022-1256

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