Vigil@nce - McAfee Application Control: privilege escalation
April 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local privileged attacker can bypass McAfee Application Control,
in order to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: McAfee Application Control
Severity: 1/4
Creation date: 04/04/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The McAfee Application Control product is used to apply a security
policy on applications.
However, a Windows administrator can bypass this security policy.
A local privileged attacker can therefore bypass McAfee
Application Control, in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/McAfee-Application-Control-privilege-escalation-14530