CVE-2018-6686

MEDIUM 6.6CVE-2018-6686 · Published 27/07/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-6686 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.6) vulnerability affecting drive encryption (mcafee).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.24%, higher than 15.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
drive encryption mcafee	`≥ 7.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

Authentication Bypass vulnerability in TPM autoboot in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) 7.1.0 and above allows physically proximate attackers to bypass local security protection via specific set of circumstances.

References

kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index

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