Security Advisory

CVE-2022-0166

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-01-19 11:05:11
Last updated 2024-08-02 23:18:42
Assigner trellix
State PUBLISHED

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.