CVE-2019-3592 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mcafee	Agent

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:agent:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10288

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2019-07-18T18:04:02

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:12:09.591Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-3592

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-18T18:15:12.513

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:09:56.623

Link: CVE-2019-3592

Redhat

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