High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-7283

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to create and edit files via symbolic link manipulation in a location they would otherwise not have access to. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Affected products

McAfee/Total Protection 2010llm-fuzzy
Range: <16.0.R26
McAfee/McAfee Total Protectioncpe-rescue
Range: 16.0.R26

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/cp/home/articleviewnvd

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