Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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).
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
McAfee, LLC · VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)