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CVE-2021-23874

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2021-11-03. Federal due date: 2021-11-17.

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Impact

Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
McafeeTotal Protection
before 16.0.30

Weakness classification

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