CVE-2022-1257: McAfee Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure storage of sensitive information vulnerability in MA for Linux, macOS, and Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information through storage in ma.db. The sensitive information has been moved to encrypted database files.

Affected products

• McAfee Agent: before 5.7.6 (fixed in 5.7.6)

Published 2022-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.