CVE-2022-0129: McAfee Techcheck

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

Uncontrolled search path element vulnerability in McAfee TechCheck prior to 4.0.0.2 allows a local administrator to load their own Dynamic Link Library (DLL) gaining elevation of privileges to system user. This was achieved through placing the malicious DLL in the same directory that the process was run from.

Affected products

• McAfee Techcheck: before 4.0.0.2 (fixed in 4.0.0.2)

Published 2022-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.