McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	57904
Class:	Design Error
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Feb 12 2013 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 12 2013 12:00AM
Credit:	Reported by vendor
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention 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 VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 2
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7 Patch 5
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0 Patch 1
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0 Patch 2

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (McAfee)