What is CVE-2023-0978?

CVE-2023-0978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Advanced Threat Defense, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2023-0978?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

RCE in Mcafee Advanced Threat Defense

CVE-2023-0978

A command injection vulnerability in Trellix Intelligent Sandbox CLI for version 5.2 and earlier, allows a local user to inject and execute arbitrary operating system commands using specially crafted strings. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI command. The vulnerability allows the attack

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.004 (29.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Mcafee Advanced_threat_defense
Trellix Intelligent_sandbox — versions 5.0, 5.2
Trellix Intelligent Sandbox — versions 5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

trellixpsirt@trellix.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-0978?: CVE-2023-0978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Advanced Threat Defense, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-0978?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.