Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-40352

High

Published: 21 August 2023

Published
21 August 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 45.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-40352 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Mcafee Safe Connect. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 45.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

McAfee Safe Connect before 2.16.1.126 may allow an adversary with system privileges to achieve privilege escalation by loading arbitrary DLLs.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mcafee
safe connect
≤ 2.16.1.126

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References