CVE-2022-4326 (GCVE-0-2022-4326)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-16 15:48
Modified
2025-04-14 18:02
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions
Summary
Improper preservation of permissions vulnerability in Trellix Endpoint Agent (xAgent) prior to V35.31.22 on Windows allows a local user with administrator privileges to bypass the product protection to uninstall the agent via incorrectly applied permissions in the removal protection functionality.
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Trellix xAgent Version: 0   < V35.31.22
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