CVE-2019-3592 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) before 5.6.1 HF3, allows local administrator users to potentially disable some McAfee processes by manipulating the MA directory control and placing a carefully constructed file in the MA directory.

Published: 2019-07-18

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

McAfee, LLC

McAfee Agent (MA)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`5.x`	affected	< 5.6.1 HF3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:agent:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-13227	Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) before 5.6.1 HF3, allows local administrator users to potentially disable some McAfee processes by manipulating the MA directory control and placing a carefully constructed file in the MA directory.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0006.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Mcafee Agent

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2019-07-18T18:04:02.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:12:09.591Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-3592

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-18T18:15:12.513

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:42:13.667

Link: CVE-2019-3592

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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