CVE-2021-23872

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: May 12, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 12, 2021

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the File Lock component of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by manipulating a symbolic link in the IOCTL interface.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Total Protection (MTP)McAfee,LLC	before 16.0.32Affected

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103146

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