CVE-2018-6704: McAfee Agent

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

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

Affected products

• McAfee Agent: from 5.0.0, up to and including 5.0.6; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 2018-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.