Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges

Published 8 y ago 2018-05-25 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.8

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.2%

percentile 7%

Public exploits

none known

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	6.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.0	6.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.0	3.9	`CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`
NVD	2.0	2.1	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N`

Affected products

McAfee, LLC VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-6674
NVD: CVE-2018-6674

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