McAfee Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:55182

Info

McAfee Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 55182
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2012-4593
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 23 2012 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 23 2012 12:00AM
Credit: Sebastian Obermeier
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

McAfee Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Multiple McAfee products are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Local attackers can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges on affected computers.

The following products are vulnerable:

McAfee Application Control 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and 6.0.0
McAfee Change Control 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and 6.0.0

Exploit / POC

McAfee Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Local attackers can exploit this issue by setting certain attributes of the client password file.

References

McAfee Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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