CVE-2020-7310

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial installer

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: Aug 21, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) TrialMcAfee,LLC	before 4.0.161.1Affected

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103067

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