CVE-2021-23877CWE-269

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Medium · published October 26, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00370 · 29.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2021-10-26T21:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 OCT 21:40Z
    McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - Privilege Escalation vulnerability
    cvelistv5