CVE-2021-23876 (GCVE-0-2021-23876)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-02-10 10:25
Modified
2024-08-03 19:14
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Bypass Remote Procedure call in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via executing carefully constructed malware.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Version: unspecified   < 16.0.30
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