Trellix Agent < 5.8.1 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (SB10416)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187944

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Synopsis

A security management agent installed on the remote host is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Description

The version of Trellix Agent, formerly McAfee Agent or McAfee Policy Orchestrator (ePO) Agent, installed on the remote host is prior to 5.8.1. It is, therefore, affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability due to not handling files in the /var/McAfeee/.msgbus folder correctly. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated permissions, or cause a Denial of Service (DoS), through exploiting a memory corruption issue in the TA service, which runs as root.
This may also result in the disabling of event reporting to ePO.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee Agent version 5.8.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187944

File Name: trellix_agent_SB10416.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 1/11/2024

Updated: 1/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-0213

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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: installed_sw/McAfee ePO Agent

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0213

IAVA: 2024-A-0010

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