Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-7314

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-jgjp-57q6-q7hv

Published

May 24, 2022 5:27 PM

Last Modified

June 2, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 13, 2025 6:30 AM

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