CVE-2021-23873

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Published at: - 10-02-2021 12:15

Last modified: - 03-05-2022 03:05

Total changes: - 5

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Low

Attack complexity

Local

Attack vector

High

Availability

None

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Privileges required

Unchanged

Scope

None

User interaction

6.1

Base score

1.8

4.2

Exploitability score

Impact score

Verification logic

vendor=mcafee AND product=total_protection AND versionEndExcluding=16.0.30

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