CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-37025
High (7.8) in mcafee security scan plus. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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 permissions and being able to execute arbitrary code due to lack of an integrity check of the configuration file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mcafee:security_scan_plus
References
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-security-scan-plus.html
- https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103335&page=shell&shell=article-view
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-security-scan-plus.html