CVE-2021-31836: McAfee Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper privilege management vulnerability in maconfig for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information. The utility was able to be run from any location on the file system and by a low privileged user.

Affected products

• McAfee McAfee Agent: before 5.7.4 (fixed in 5.7.4)

Published 2021-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.