CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-37025
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSS+) before 4.1.262.1 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 due to lack of an integrity check of the configuration file.
Affected configurations
• mcafee security scan plus (< 4.1.262.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/ Not Applicable
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-security-scan-plus.html Product
- https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103335&page=shell&shell=article-view Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/ Not Applicable
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-security-scan-plus.html Product
- https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103335&page=shell&shell=article-view Patch, Vendor Advisory