CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23873

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2021-02-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• mcafee total protection (< 16.0.30)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References