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ghsa-99j6-pf9p-h77c

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:41

Modified

2022-05-24 17:41

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Details

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file deletion as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via manipulating Junction link, after enumerating certain files, at a specific time.

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  "id": "GHSA-99j6-pf9p-h77c",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:41:45Z",
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cve-2021-23873

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-02-10 10:20

Modified

2024-08-03 19:14

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) privilege escalation vulnerability

References

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	https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-175/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	McAfee,LLC	McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

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