McAfee Agent (MA) is a client component of McAfee, Inc. that provides secure communication between ePolicy Orchestrator (antivirus management platform) and managed products. a code issue vulnerability exists in versions of McAfee Agent (MA) prior to 5.7.7, which stems from a vulnerability that allows a local user to execute arbitrary code and by carefully placing a malicious DLL into the Smart is executing the installer. No details of the vulnerability are currently available.