CVE-2022-0280CWE-367

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - File Deletion vulnerability

High · published March 10, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
25.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A race condition vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to 16.0.43 that allows a local user to gain privilege elevation and perform an arbitrary file delete. This could lead to sensitive files being deleted and potentially cause denial of service. This attack exploits the way symlinks are created and how the product works with them.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00337 · 25.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Published
2022-03-10T22:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 MAR 22:35Z
    McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - File Deletion vulnerability
    cvelistv5