CVE-2020-7314: McAfee Agent

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

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

Affected products

• McAfee McAfee Agent: before 5.6.6 (fixed in 5.6.6)

Published 2020-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.