Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18421 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:10:10.792Z

Reserved: 2018-02-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6674

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-25T13:29:00.333

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:05.523

Link: CVE-2018-6674

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