Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the systems root password via improper access controls in the user interface.
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web_gateway | Mcafee | 7.8.0 (including) | 7.8.2.23 (excluding) |
| Web_gateway | Mcafee | 8.2.0 (including) | 8.2.11 (excluding) |
| Web_gateway | Mcafee | 9.0.0 (including) | 9.2.3 (excluding) |