Description
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.
Published: 2022-01-19
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-15374 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.
History

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:18:42.062Z

Reserved: 2022-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-0166

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-19T11:15:07.923

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:38:03.367

Link: CVE-2022-0166

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