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McAfee Agent 5.6.x < 5.6.1 HF3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (SB10288)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126825

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Synopsis

A security management agent installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of McAfee Agent, formerly McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) Agent, installed on the remote host is 5.6.x prior to 5.6.1 HF3. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local administrator can exploit this issue, via carefully constructed file in the McAfee Agent directory, to potentially disable some McAfee processes.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee Agent version 5.6.1 HF3 or later.

See Also

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10288

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126825

File Name: mcafee_epo_agent_SB10288.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/19/2019

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator_agent, cpe:/a:mcafee:agent

Required KB Items: installed_sw/McAfee ePO Agent

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3592

BID: 109148