{"id":"CVE-2018-6674","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-6674","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:50:04.673Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting…","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).","published":"2018-05-25T13:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:02:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":3.9,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264","CWE-269","CWE-274","CWE-311"],"affected":["mcafee/virusscan enterprise"],"epss":{"score":0.0018,"percentile":0.07528,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6674","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}