CVE-2018-6706: McAfee Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure handling of temporary files in non-Windows McAfee Agent 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows an Unprivileged User to introduce custom paths during agent installation in Linux via unspecified vectors.

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.