Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the troubleshooting page.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-10811 Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the troubleshooting page.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00282}

epss

{'score': 0.0038}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.417Z

Reserved: 2021-01-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-23885

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-17T10:15:12.647

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:00.190

Link: CVE-2021-23885

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