CVE-2018-6674

LowCVSS 3.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 3.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264CWE-269CWE-274CWE-311

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 25, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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