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CVE-2021-23873

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.

  • Published: Feb 10, 2021
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2021-23873
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
mcafee / total_protection - 16.0.30