01 Record
CVE-2018-6704
McAfee Agent for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: trellix
CNA base score4.7 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
02 Description
McAfee Agent for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability
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
- 0.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 30.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- 2018-12-12 20:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 06:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-02-06
- Assigning CNA
- trellix
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-377Insecure Temporary FileClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c4fa9c883700981c9b7f57c66745a3f33fe673b784d2ebad5f97ba159620fecf
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
07 Remediation
McAfee highly recommends that all customers upgrade to McAfee Agent 5.6.0.