McAfee Agent for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability

published 2018-12-12 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-18451

cvss: 4.7; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits: 0; none known

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-377 DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10259

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-6704
NVD CVE-2018-6704

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Summary