CVE-2021-31833

HIGH

McAfee Application and Change Control < 8.3.4 - Privilege Escalation via Binary Renaming

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Potential product security bypass vulnerability in McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) prior to version 8.3.4 allows a locally logged in attacker to circumvent the application solidification protection provided by MACC, permitting them to run applications that would usually be prevented by MACC. This would require the attacker to rename the specified binary to match name of any configured updater and perform a specific set of steps, resulting in the renamed binary to be to run.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
mcafee/application_and_change_control < 8.3.4
Published Jan 04, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026