McAfee vulnerabilities
We track 13 vulnerabilities in McAfee products across 13 products. 13 are rated high or critical, and 2 have been exploited in real attacks. The most recent was published on June 11, 2024.
Latest McAfee vulnerabilities
- 9.1 Critical severity
antivirus_vpn_for_android: Improper Control of Generation of Code
Improper deep link validation in McAfee Security: Antivirus VPN for Android before 8.3.0 could allow an attacker to launch an arbitrary URL within the app.
- 7.8 High severity
Total Protection: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
McAfee Total Protection prior to version 16.0.49 contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability due to the use of a variable pointing to a subdirectory that may be controllable by an unprivileged user. This may have allowed the unprivileged user to
- 7.8 High severity
Security Scan Plus: Improper Privilege Management
An improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSS+) before 4.1.262.1 could allow a local user to modify a configuration file and perform a LOLBin (Living off the land) attack. This could result in the user gaining elevated permis
- 7.3 High severity
Trellix Agent (TA): Uncontrolled Search Path Element
A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the MA Smart Installer for Windows prior to 5.7.7, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code and obtain higher privileges via careful placement of a malicious DLL into the folder from where the Smart installer is being
- 8.2 High severity
McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
An uncontrolled search path vulnerability in McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool prior to version 10.4.128 could allow a local attacker to perform a sideloading attack by using a specific file name. This could result in the user gaining elevated permissions a
- 7.8 High severity
McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool: Improper Privilege Management
Improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool prior to version 10.4.128 could allow a local user to modify a configuration file and perform a LOLBin (Living off the land) attack. This could result in the user gaining eleva
- 7.2 High severity
McAfee Agent ePO extension: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
A blind SQL injection vulnerability in the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) extension of MA prior to 5.7.6 can be exploited by an authenticated administrator on ePO to perform arbitrary SQL queries in the back-end database, potentially leading to command execution o
- 7.8 High severity
McAfee Agent for Windows: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with S
- 7.3 High severity
McAfee WebAdvisor: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee WebAdvisor Chrome and Edge browser extensions up to 8.1.0.1895 allows a remote attacker to gain access to McAfee WebAdvisor settings and other details about the user’s system. This could lead to unexpected behavi
- 7.0 High severity
McAfee Total Protection for Windows: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
A race condition vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to 16.0.43 that allows a local user to gain privilege elevation and perform an arbitrary file delete. This could lead to sensitive files being deleted
- 7.8 High severity
McAfee Agent for Windows: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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 subd
- 7.8 High severity
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Exploited
Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.
- 7.8 High severity
Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.