CVE-2023-40352 (GCVE-0-2023-40352)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-21 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-04 18:02
VLAI
Summary
McAfee Safe Connect before 2.16.1.126 may allow an adversary with system privileges to achieve privilege escalation by loading arbitrary DLLs.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
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Assigner
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