CVE-2020-7310

published 2020-08-21

CVE-2020-7310: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that…

Priority P4 23 medium 6.9 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC H PR H UI R S C C N I H A H

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	total_protection	< 4.0.161.1	4.0.161.1
mcafee_llc	mcafee_total_protection_trial	>= unspecified < 4.0.161.1	4.0.161.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 3.3 LOW AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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