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Vulnerability in McAfee Antivirus Software Let Hackers Escalates Privilege

The vulnerability was discovered by SafeBreach Labs in all editions of McAfee Antivirus software. To exploit this vulnerability the attacker needs to be a system administrator. The vulnerability can be tracked as CVE-2019-3648 and it was reported to McAfee on Aug 5th, 2019, it has been patched now and McAfee urges users to update with 16.0.R22 Refresh 1 version that fixes the privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability gives attackers an ability to load and execute malicious payloads using multiple signed services in a persistent way.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/vulnerability-mcafee-antivirus/

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