PT-2018-17720 · Mcafee · Mcafee Agent

Published 2018-12-13 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-6707

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions McAfee Agent versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.6 McAfee Agent version 5.5.0 McAfee Agent version 5.5.1

Description A Denial of Service through Resource Depletion issue exists, potentially allowing local users to cause unexpected behavior or unauthorized code execution by exploiting the internal trust mechanism.

Recommendations For McAfee Agent versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For McAfee Agent version 5.5.0, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For McAfee Agent version 5.5.1, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6707

Affected Products

Mcafee Agent

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6707 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10260 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106307 · Note