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MEDIUMpublic exploit

CVE-2022-1257

CVE-2022-1257 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature by McAfee Agent

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.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, trellix

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

mcafee

mcafee_agent

CVSS base

6.1

MEDIUM

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

mcafee

Products (1)

mcafee agent

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
6.1CVSS 3.1MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-922

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

exploit dbpoc in github

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • mcafeeevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-922other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.