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CVE-2022-4326

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Description

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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.0 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2022-12-16 16:15:25.220000
Last modified
2026-11-09 18:35:59.843000
View original CVE JSON
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