Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published May 25, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6674
CVE-2018-6674
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).
Affected products
2- Range: <8.8 Patch 13
- McAfee, LLC/VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)v5Range: 8.8
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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