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Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 21, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7310

GHSA ID

GHSA-x6r6-6554-775v

Source code

No known source code

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