CVE-2020-7314

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Published at: - 10-09-2020 12:15

Last modified: - 01-06-2022 08:54

Total changes: - 2

Description

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Low

Attack complexity

Local

Attack vector

High

Availability

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

Low

Privileges required

Unchanged

Scope

None

User interaction

7.8

Base score

1.8

5.9

Exploitability score

Impact score

Verification logic

vendor=mcafee AND product=mcafee_agent AND target_software=macos AND versionEndExcluding=5.6.6

Reference

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10325

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