CVE-2019-3592: McAfee Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) before 5.6.1 HF3, allows local administrator users to potentially disable some McAfee processes by manipulating the MA directory control and placing a carefully constructed file in the MA directory.

Affected products

• McAfee Agent: from 5.0.0, up to and including 5.6.1

Published 2019-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.