4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-8009

Published: 14/03/2017 Updated: 27/03/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Application Control (MAC) 7.0 and 6.x versions allows malicious users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via an unauthorized use of IOCTL call.

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