Executive Summary

Summary
Title McAfee Agent for Windows is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location
Informations
Name VU#287178 First vendor Publication 2022-01-20
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2022-01-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.8
Base Score 7.8 Environmental Score 7.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Overview

McAfee Agent contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user may be able to place files.

Description

CVE-2022-0166

McAfee Agent, which comes with various McAfee products such as McAfee Endpoint Security, includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory that my be controllable by an unprivileged user on Windows. McAfee Agent contains a privileged service that uses this OpenSSL component. A user who can place a specially-crafted openssl.cnf file at an appropriate path may be able to achieve arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.

Impact

By placing a specially-crafted openssl.cnf in a location used by McAfee Agent, an unprivileged user may be able to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a Windows system with the vulnerable McAfee Agent software installed.

Solution

Apply an update

This vulnerability is addressed in McAfee Agent version 5.7.5.

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported by Will Dormann of the CERT/CC.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Original Source

Url : https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/287178

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8

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Date Informations
2022-01-26 00:29:24
  • Multiple Updates
2022-01-21 00:17:41
  • First insertion