Overview
- Description
- Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 5.8
- Exploitability score
- 0.6
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 3.3
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:trial:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D83A7817-FDB0-4A38-AFAE-95A89C8C4CCE",
"versionEndExcluding": "4.0.161.1"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]