CVE-2018-6674

3.9 lowEPSS 0.2%

Low (3.9) in mcafee virusscan enterprise. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

Severity

CVSS 3.0

3.9 low

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-311, CWE-264, CWE-269, CWE-274
Published: 2018-05-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237

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