Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - Privilege Escalation vulnerability
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
2<16.0.34_x+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <16.0.34_x
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
1- service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/cp/home/articleviewmitrex_refsource_MISC
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