CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1824

8.2 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])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

An uncontrolled search path vulnerability in McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool prior to version 10.4.128 could allow a local attacker to perform a sideloading attack by using a specific file name. This could result in the user gaining elevated permissions and being able to execute arbitrary code as there were insufficient checks on the executable being signed by McAfee.

Affected configurations

• mcafee consumer product removal tool (< 10.4.128)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References