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CVE-2018-6677
McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) - Directory Traversal vulnerability
High7.6EPSS 2.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
Directory Traversal vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) MWG 7.8.1.x allows authenticated administrator users to gain elevated privileges via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
- Directory Traversal vulnerability
- CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee · McAfee Web Gateway (MWG)
- affected 7.8.1 – < 7.8.1*
- unaffected 7.8.2 – < 7.8.2*
References (2)
- 104893 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10245 (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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