CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1823

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-06-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-06-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.9 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

Improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool prior to version 10.4.128 could allow a local user to modify a configuration file and perform a LOLBin (Living off the land) attack. This could result in the user gaining elevated permissions and being able to execute arbitrary code, through not correctly checking the integrity of the configuration file.

Affected configurations

• mcafee consumer product removal tool (< 10.4.128)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References