CVE-2021-23885
Published Feb 17, 2021
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- Description
- Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.8 allows an authenticated user to gain elevated privileges through the User Interface and execute commands on the appliance via incorrect improper neutralization of user input in the troubleshooting page.
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- CWE-269
Configurations
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