McAfee Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.4 / 5.6.x prior to 5.6.4 Improper Access Control Vulnerability (SB10312)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134762

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Synopsis

A security management agent installed on the remote host is affected by improper access control vulnerability.

Description

The version of McAfee Agent, formerly McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) Agent, installed on the remote host is 5.5.x prior to 5.5.4 / 5.6.x prior to 5.6.4. It is, therefore, affected by improper access control vulnerability. It allows local users with administrator privileges to disable self-protection via a McAfee supplied command-line utility.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee Agent version 5.5.4, 5.6.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134762

File Name: mcafee_epo_agent_SB10312.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/20/2020

Updated: 9/27/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7253

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator_agent, cpe:/a:mcafee:agent

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/McAfee ePO Agent

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7253

IAVA: 2020-A-0108

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