CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2021-23885

    CVE-2021-23885

    Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the troubleshooting page.

    Published:Feb 17, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Feb 17, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.0038
    CVSS Score:9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Mcafee
    Product
    Web Gateway

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2022-1254 (CVSS 6.1) — A URL redirection vulnerability in Skyhigh SWG in main releases 10.x prior to 10.2.9, 9.x prior to 9.2.20, 8.x…
    CVE-2021-3449 (CVSS 5.9) — An OpenSSL TLS server may crash if sent a maliciously crafted renegotiation ClientHello message from a client.…
    CVE-2021-3450 (CVSS 7.4) — The X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT flag enables additional security checks of the certificates present in a certifica…
    CVE-2021-3156 (CVSS 7.8) — Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows…
    CVE-2020-7297 (CVSS 5.7) — Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interf…
    CVE-2020-7296 (CVSS 5.7) — Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interf…
    CVE-2020-7295 (CVSS 3.5) — Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interf…
    CVE-2020-7294 (CVSS 4.6) — Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interf…
    CVE-2020-7293 (CVSS 9) — Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interf…
    CVE-2020-7292 (CVSS 4.3) — Inappropriate Encoding for output context vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows a re…

    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