CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-24578
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-03-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks.
Affected configurations
• mcafee total protection (< 16.0.49)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-corporate/mcafee-labs/product-security-bulletins.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103397&page=shell&shell=article-view Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-corporate/mcafee-labs/product-security-bulletins.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103397&page=shell&shell=article-view Vendor Advisory