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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2022· Updated Aug 2, 2024

Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows

CVE-2022-1256

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with System privileges through manipulation of symbolic links.

Affected products

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Patches

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