McAfee Agent up to 5.6.1 HF2 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.6.1 HF2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-3592. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.6.1 HF2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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) before 5.6.1 HF3, allows local administrator users to potentially disable some McAfee processes by manipulating the MA directory control and placing a carefully constructed file in the MA directory.

The weakness was released 07/18/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-3592 since 01/03/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 5.6.1 HF3 is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

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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: Patch
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Patch: 5.6.1 HF3

Timelineinfo

01/03/2019 🔍
07/18/2019 +196 days 🔍
07/19/2019 +1 days 🔍
11/01/2023 +1566 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2019-3592 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-3592
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-138326

Entryinfo

Created: 07/19/2019 10:37
Updated: 11/01/2023 18:15
Changes: 07/19/2019 10:37 (55), 07/08/2020 16:26 (1), 11/01/2023 18:15 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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