CVE-2016-8009: McAfee Application Control

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Application Control (MAC) 7.0 and 6.x versions allows attackers to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via an unauthorized use of IOCTL call.

Affected products

• McAfee Application Control: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.1.2 only; version 6.1.3 only; version 6.2.0 only; …

Published 2017-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.