CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6693
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-274, CWE-363, CWE-367
Description
An unprivileged user can delete arbitrary files on a Linux system running ENSLTP 10.5.1, 10.5.0, and 10.2.3 Hotfix 1246778 and earlier. By exploiting a time of check to time of use (TOCTOU) race condition during a specific scanning sequence, the unprivileged user is able to perform a privilege escalation to delete arbitrary files.
Affected configurations
• mcafee endpoint security for linux threat prevention (<= 10.2.3)
• mcafee endpoint security for linux threat prevention 10.5.1
• mcafee endpoint security linux threat prevention 10.5.0