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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2022-01-19T11:05:11

Updated: 2022-01-20T23:06:12

Reserved: 2022-01-10T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2022-0166

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-19T11:15:07.923

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:41:07.420


Link: CVE-2022-0166

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