CVE-2021-23873: 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…

PriorityP428medium6.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCNILAH

EPSS

0.65%

46.7th percentile

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	total_protection	< 16.0.30	16.0.30
mcafee_llc	mcafee_total_protection	>= unspecified < 16.0.30	16.0.30

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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