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CVE-2020-7293

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user w

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.

CRITICAL · CVSS 9 EPSS 0.00096
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-287Improper Authentication
CWE-287Improper Authentication
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Affected Products & Versions

3
mcafee web gateway>= 7.8.0 and < 7.8.2.23
mcafee web gateway>= 8.2.0 and < 8.2.11
mcafee web gateway>= 9.0.0 and < 9.2.3
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Scoring & Timeline

9
CRITICAL · CVSS v3.1 · trellixpsirt@trellix.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD15 Sep 2020 · 11:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10323
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