CVE-2021-23873: McAfee Total Protection (MTP) privilege escalation vulnerability
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 52% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file deletion as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via manipulating Junction link, after enumerating certain files, at a specific time.
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 16.0.30
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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
- February 2021
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