CVE-2023-40352 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting McAfee Safe Connect versions prior to 2.16.1.126. It allows an attacker with existing system privileges to achieve privilege escalation by loading arbitrary DLLs, categorized as a CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element). The CVSS score of 7.2 indicates a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.16.1.126CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:safe_connect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.