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CVE-2021-23874

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Watch priority : UrgentCVSS 8.2 v3.1Exploited

Why this priority

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  • Présent dans le catalogue CISA KEV (exploitation confirmée)

Description

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute code, bypassing MTP self-defense.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
McAfeeMcAfee Total Protection (MTP)All versions
McAfee,LLCMcAfee Total Protection (MTP)
  • from unspecified to 16.0.30 excluded

Revision history

  1. Revision 3

  2. Revision 2

    Update : Affected versions changed

  3. Revision 1

    New record

Qualification

CVSS severity
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Technical severity score between 0 and 10, with its version (3.1, 4.0). See the glossary

8.2 HIGH CVSS v3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
KEV catalog
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Listed
Exploitation
Confirmed
EPSS probability
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Unknown
Confidence
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High

Priority rules, version 1

CISA KEV catalog

Added on
3 November 2021
Federal due date
17 November 2021
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware use
Unknown

Record

Published on
10 February 2021
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-269, CWE-284

Sources

References

CVE-2021-23874 McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability · Avanguard TACTIC