McAfee Agent could serve as a loophole for malicious code

August 1, 2022

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An important security update closes a vulnerability in McAfee Agent.

Under certain conditions, attackers could target a vulnerability in McAfee Agent under Windows, run malicious code on systems and gain increased user rights. A patch solves the security problem. The application downloads updates for McAfee applications, among other things.

At the Gap (CVE-2022-2313″high“) is a DLL hijacking vulnerability. At this point, a local attacker could place a crafted DLL library in the same folder from which the Smart Installer is run. McAfee Agent 5.77 should be armed against such attacks, assure the developers in a warning message.