Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

CVE-2021-23876 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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