QID 376619

Date Published: 2022-05-25

QID 376619: McAfee Agent Multiple Insecure Storage Vulnerability (SB10382)

The McAfee Agent is the distributed component of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. It downloads and enforces policies, and executes client-side tasks such as deployment and updating. The Agent also uploads events and provides additional data regarding each system status.

CVE-2022-1257: Insecure storage of sensitive information vulnerability in MA for Linux, macOS, and Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information through storage in ma.db.
Affected versions:
McAfee Agent Prior to 5.7.6
QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
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 and /opt/McAfee/agent/bin/msaconfig in Linux to detect the version.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal sensitive information from the target.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
    • Solution
    Install or update to McAfee Agent 5.7.6 For more details refer SB10382
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 376619

    CVE-2022-1257 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SB10382 URL Logo kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10382
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