Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-23873
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file deletion as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via manipulating Junction link, after enumerating certain files, at a specific time.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 28.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 3.6
Products affected by CVE-2021-23873
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:-
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:16.0.18
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:16.0.29
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:4.0.161.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:4.0.176.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:4.6