McAfee Agent up to 5.6.5 on Windows DLL insufficient privileges

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.6.5 on Windows. Affected is an unknown function of the component DLL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient privileges vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-274. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

DLL Injection Vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Windows prior to 5.6.6 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via careful placement of a malicious DLL.

The weakness was disclosed 09/10/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-7315 since 01/21/2020. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 5.6.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries 161109, 161110 and 161111 are pretty similar.

Productinfo

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McAfee

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Agent

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commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Insufficient privileges
CWE: CWE-274 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Agent 5.6.6

Timelineinfo

01/21/2020 🔍
09/10/2020 +233 days 🔍
09/11/2020 +1 days 🔍
09/11/2020 +0 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-7315 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/11/2020 08:41
Updated: 09/11/2020 08:46
Changes: 09/11/2020 08:41 (41), 09/11/2020 08:46 (11)
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