McAfee Agent up to 5.5.1 on Linux access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.5.1 on Linux and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-6704. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.5.1 on Linux and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

The bug was discovered 12/13/2018. The weakness was disclosed 12/12/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-6704 since 02/06/2018. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/18/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-127924 and VDB-127923 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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CNA Base Score: 4.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

02/06/2018 🔍
12/12/2018 +309 days 🔍
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12/13/2018 +1 days 🔍
12/13/2018 +0 days 🔍
06/18/2023 +1648 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-6704 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-6704
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-127922
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Entryinfo

Created: 12/13/2018 10:07
Updated: 06/18/2023 16:29
Changes: 12/13/2018 10:07 (56), 04/20/2020 16:56 (2), 06/18/2023 16:29 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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