SB2020091419 - Multiple vulnerabilities in McAfee Agent
Published: September 14, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7311)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the installer, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
2) Insecure DLL loading (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7315)
The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to the application loads DLL libraries in an insecure manner. A local user can use a specially crafted .dll file, trick the victim into opening a file, associated with the vulnerable application, and execute arbitrary code on victim's system.
3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7314)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
4) Insecure DLL loading (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7312)
The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to the application loads DLL libraries in an insecure manner. A local user can place a specially crafted .dll file, trick the victim into opening a file and execute arbitrary code on victim's system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.