Description
Improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in Trellix Endpoint Agent (xAgent) prior to V35.31.22 on Windows allows a local user with administrator privileges to bypass the product protection to uninstall the agent via incorrectly applied permissions in the removal protection functionality.

Published: 2022-12-16
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51679 Improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in Trellix Endpoint Agent (xAgent) prior to V35.31.22 on Windows allows a local user with administrator privileges to bypass the product protection to uninstall the agent via incorrectly applied permissions in the removal protection functionality.
History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows
Trellix Endpoint Security
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-14T18:02:09.656Z

Reserved: 2022-12-07T08:38:53.100Z

Link: CVE-2022-4326

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:50.135Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-16T16:15:25.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:35:03.630

Link: CVE-2022-4326

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses