CVE-2022-0166

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2022-0166
  • Assigner
  • psirt@mcafee.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2022-01-19T11:15:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-01-25T20:12:33
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-269 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:agent:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* 1 OR 5.7.5
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10378 Vendor Advisory
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/287178 Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0166
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0166
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:36:14 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-06 07:00:35 2022-01-19T11:15Z 2022-01-19T11:15:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-06 07:00:35 2022-01-25T20:12:33 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-06 07:00:35 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated