CVE-2021-23872: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
McAfee,LLC · McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
Vendor fix available · Affected: McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection (MTP) · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 37% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the File Lock component of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by manipulating a symbolic link in the IOCTL interface.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- McAfee,LLC · McAfee Total Protection (MTP)before 16.0.32
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- McAfee,LLC
- Published
- May 2021
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