QID 375842

Date Published: 2021-09-15

QID 375842: McAfee Agent Missing Authorization Vulnerabilities (SB10343)

The McAfee Agent is the distributed component of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO).
It downloads and enforces policies, and executes client-side tasks such as deployment and updating. McAfee Agent is affected with following vulnerability: CVE-2020-7343 : Missing Authorization

Affected Software:
McAfee Agent: Prior to 5.7.1

Detection Logic:
The QID checks for vulnerable version of McAfee Agent by checking the version information at HKLM\SOFTWARE\McAfee\Agent registry key for 32/64 bit.

Successful exploitation allows local users to block McAfee product updates by manipulating a directory used by MA for temporary files

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.

Solution

Install or update to McAfee Agent 5.7.1 For more details refer SB10343

Vendor References

SB10343 - kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10343

CVEs related to QID 375842

CVE-2020-7343 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
SB10343			kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10343

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