Improper privilege management vulnerability in maconfig for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information. The utility was able to be run from any location on the file system and by a low privileged user.

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-31836

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-xxjw-6qx2-crcm

Published

May 24, 2022 7:15 PM

Last Modified

November 15, 2023 9:35 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 6, 2025 6:30 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.