McAfee Agent up to 5.6.1 HF2 privilege escalation [CVE-2019-3592]

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Agent up to 5.6.1 HF2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 07/18/2019. The advisory is available at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-3592 since 01/03/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/19/2019).

Applying the patch 5.6.1 HF3 is able to eliminate this problem.

Vendor

• McAfee

Name

• Agent

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.3
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Current Price Estimation: 🔒

Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 5.6.1 HF3

01/03/2019 CVE assigned
07/18/2019 +196 days Advisory disclosed
07/19/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/19/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: kc.mcafee.com

CVE: CVE-2019-3592 (🔒)

Created: 07/19/2019 10:37 AM
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