CVE-2021-31839: McAfee Agent

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper privilege management vulnerability in McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.3 allows a local user to modify event information in the MA event folder. This allows a local user to either add false events or remove events from the event logs prior to them being sent to the ePO server.

Affected products

• McAfee Agent: from 5.0.0, before 5.7.3 (fixed in 5.7.3)

Published 2021-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.