CVE-2022-1256

HIGH

McAfee Agent < 5.7.6 - Local Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with System privileges through manipulation of symbolic links.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
mcafee/agent < 5.7.6
Published Apr 14, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026