Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-23877

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows trial installer of McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.34_x may allow a local user to run arbitrary code as the admin user by replacing a specific temporary file created during the installation of the trial version of MTP.

Affected products

McAfee/Total Protection 2010llm-fuzzy
Range: <16.0.34_x
McAfee/McAfee Total Protectioncpe-rescue
Range: unspecified

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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

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