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CVE-2018-6707
McAfee Agent Insecure usage of temporary files vulnerability
Low3.7EPSS 0.33%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
Denial of Service through Resource Depletion vulnerability in the agent in non-Windows McAfee Agent (MA) 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via knowledge of the internal trust mechanism.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee · McAfee Agent (MA) non-Windows non-Windows versions
- affected 5.5.0
- affected 5.5.1
- affected 5.0.0 – < 5.0.0*
- affected 5.0.6 – ≤ 5.0.6
What to do
Solution: upgrade to McAfee Agent 5.6.0
References (2)
- 106307 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10260 (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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