FKIE_CVE-2022-0280

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-03-10 23:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 06:38
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://service.mcafee.com/?articleId=TS103271&page=shell&shell=article-viewVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://service.mcafee.com/?articleId=TS103271&page=shell&shell=article-viewVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mcafee total_protection *
microsoft windows -
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