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CVE-2022-0166
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-01-19T11:15:07.923 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:20:05.033

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.

Affected products

mcafee — agent

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References

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