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CVE-2018-6674
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges
Medium6.8EPSS 0.18%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
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).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Low3.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
- CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
- CWE-274: Privilege Escalation (CWE-274) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-274 and its CVEs
- CWE-269: Data Leakage via Privilege Escalation (CWE-269) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
- CWE-311 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-311 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee, LLC · VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)
- affected 8.8 – < 8.8 Patch 13
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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