CVE-2023-24578

Published Mar 13, 2023

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-427

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2FE4DFD8-8A19-4552-8071-755F9598134D",
            "versionEndExcluding": "16.0.49"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References