CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-43751

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-11-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

McAfee Total Protection prior to version 16.0.49 contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability due to the use of a variable pointing to a subdirectory that may be controllable by an unprivileged user. This may have allowed the unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Affected configurations

• mcafee total protection (< 16.0.49)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References