CVE-2022-0166 — Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirect…
Published: 2022-01-19 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7