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01 Record

CVE-2018-6674

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: trellix
CNA base score6.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.18% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 7.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
3.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-05-25 13:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 06:10Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2018-02-06
Assigning CNA
trellix
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.8)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-264
  • CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementClass
  • CWE-274Improper Handling of Insufficient PrivilegesBase
  • CWE-311Missing Encryption of Sensitive DataClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
f6c8935cbeaaead357c3046cbb438c96da6ed4312e27d95034f0b5c2c6d4e8d0

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
McAfee, LLCVirusScan Enterprise (VSE)8.8 to < 8.8 Patch 13Windows

06 References