🛡️ CVE-2022-0815 — webadvisor

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-668 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee WebAdvisor Chrome and Edge browser extensions up to 8.1.0.1895 allows a remote attacker to gain access to McAfee WebAdvisor settings and other details about the user’s system. This could lead to unexpected behaviors including; settings being changed, fingerprinting of the system leading to targeted scams, and not triggering the malicious software if McAfee software is detected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0815 is classified as CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. A resource is made reachable from a context that should not have access to it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0815 is recorded against 1 package.

  • webadvisor (fixed in 8.1.0.1895)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

service.mcafee.com
service.mcafee.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-668
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
webadvisor — 8.1.0.1895

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