CVE-2018-6674: McAfee Virusscan Enterprise

Low severity, CVSS 3.9. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• McAfee Virusscan Enterprise: version 8.8.0 only

Published 2018-05-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.