CVE-2021-23874

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) privilege escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Feb 10, 2021
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jan 12, 2021

Description

Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Total Protection (MTP)McAfee,LLC	before 16.0.30Affected

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103114
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-23874government-resource

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