Overview
- Description
- Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 2.3
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.7
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 5.1
- Vector string
- AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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"versionEndExcluding": "7.8.2.23",
"versionStartIncluding": "7.8.0"
},
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"matchCriteriaId": "1CBED2B1-5ED4-4595-9831-5094918C26FE",
"versionEndExcluding": "8.2.11",
"versionStartIncluding": "8.2.0"
},
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"versionEndExcluding": "9.2.3",
"versionStartIncluding": "9.0.0"
}
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"operator": "OR"
}
]
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