CVE Published: 10/02/2021 |
CVE Updated: 03/08/2024 |
CVE Year: 2021 Source: trellix |
Vendor: McAfee,LLC |
Product: McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Status : PUBLISHED
CVE-2021-23873 Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS Version: 3.1 |
Base Score: 7.8 HIGH Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
l➤ Exploitability Metrics: Attack Vector (AV)* LOCAL Attack Complexity (AC)* HIGH Privileges Required (PR)* LOW User Interaction (UI)* NONE Scope (S)* CHANGED
l➤ Impact Metrics: Confidentiality Impact (C)* HIGH Integrity Impact (I)* HIGH Availability Impact (A)* HIGH
Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
CWE-ID: CWE-59 CWE Name: CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (
Link Following
) Source: McAfee,LLC
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)