CVE-2019-3617: Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Mac OS prior to 4.6 allows local users to gain root privileges via incorrect…

PriorityP336high8.2CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUIRSCCHIHAH

EPSS

0.31%

22.4th percentile

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Mac OS prior to 4.6 allows local users to gain root privileges via incorrect protection of temporary files.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	total_protection	< 4.6	4.6
mcafee_llc	total_protection_for_mac_os	>= 4.x < 4.6	4.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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