Mcafee vulnerabilities2 known to be exploited.

Vendor2 known exploited
The short answer

Mcafee has 603 published vulnerabilities across 169 products in our catalogue. 2 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Epolicy Orchestrator, with 86. If you run Mcafee software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Mcafee flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2021-3156, on 6 April 2022. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Mcafee products have the most vulnerabilities?

Epolicy Orchestrator leads with 86 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Mcafee vulnerabilities are being exploited?

2 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 7.8
    CVE-2021-3156HighKnown exploited
    Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

    Sudo contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows for privilege escalation.

    Chance of use>99%Known exploited since6 Apr 2022
  2. 8.2
    CVE-2021-23874HighKnown exploited
    McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

    McAfee Total Protection (MTP) contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute code, bypassing MTP self-defense.

    Chance of use1.0%Known exploited since3 Nov 2021
Exploit likelihood

Which Mcafee flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. >99%
    CVE-2021-3156HighKnown exploited

    Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single...

    CVSS7.8Published26 Jan 2021
Every product

All Mcafee products we track.

142 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

This directory lists the 142 Mcafee products with at least one tracked version, of 169 in our catalogue.

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Our catalogue lists 603 published vulnerabilities across 169 products and 934 versions from Mcafee. The most recent Mcafee flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2021-3156, on 6 April 2022.

2 Mcafee vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2021-3156 and CVE-2021-23874. The full list is on this page.

Epolicy Orchestrator, with 86 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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