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CVE-2018-6674: Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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).

Affected products

• Intel VirusScan Enterprise Linux (VSEL): 8.8.0

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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