Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee Agent

Published 6 y ago 2020-03-12 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.7

v3.1 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.2%

percentile 15%

Public exploits

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.24% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs.

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`
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 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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

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