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CVE-2022-1256

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-04-14 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with System privileges through manipulation of symbolic links.

Affected Platforms

Mcafee Agent

Weakness Type

CWE-269, CWE-59

References