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    CVE-2018-6674

    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

    Published:May 25, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:May 25, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00022
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Mcafee
    Product
    Virusscan Enterprise
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse
    CAPEC-157 Sniffing Attacks
    CAPEC-158 Sniffing Network Traffic
    CAPEC-204 Lifting Sensitive Data Embedded in Cache
    CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-37 Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data
    CAPEC-383 Harvesting Information via API Event Monitoring
    CAPEC-384 Application API Message Manipulation via Man-in-the-Middle
    CAPEC-385 Transaction or Event Tampering via Application API Manipulation
    CAPEC-386 Application API Navigation Remapping
    CAPEC-387 Navigation Remapping To Propagate Malicious Content
    CAPEC-388 Application API Button Hijacking
    CAPEC-477 Signature Spoofing by Mixing Signed and Unsigned Content
    CAPEC-58 Restful Privilege Elevation
    CAPEC-609 Cellular Traffic Intercept
    CAPEC-65 Sniff Application Code

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High