CVE-2023-0978: McAfee Advanced Threat Defense

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A command injection vulnerability in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox CLI for version 5.2 and earlier, allows a local user to inject and execute arbitrary operating system commands using specially crafted strings. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI command. The vulnerability allows the attack

Affected products

• McAfee Advanced Threat Defense: from 4.0, up to and including 4.14.2
• Trellix Intelligent Sandbox: version 5.0 only; version 5.2 only

Published 2023-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.