CVE-2022-0166 is a vulnerability in McAfee Agent
Published on January 19, 2022
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-0166 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-0166
Want to know whenever a new CVE is published for McAfee Agent? stack.watch will email you.
Affected Versions
McAfee,LLC McAfee Agent for Windows:- Version unspecified and below 5.7.5 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.