CVE-2018-6704

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-6704
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-12 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:00:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Agent 5.5.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Agent 5.5.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Agent 5.5.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Agent 5.5.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Agent All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
McAfee Security Bulletin - McAfee Agent for Linux update fixes a Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2018-6704) kc.mcafee.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: McAfee credits Andreas Dewald, ERNW Research GmbH (Germany) for discovery of this vulnerability

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