CVE-2021-23877: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows trial installer of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.34_x may allow a local user to run arbitrary…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.36%

27.7th percentile

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows trial installer of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.34_x may allow a local user to run arbitrary code as the admin user by replacing a specific temporary file created during the installation of the trial version of MTP.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	mcafee_total_protection	>= unspecified < 16.0.34	16.0.34
mcafee	total_protection	< 16.0.34	16.0.34

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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