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Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

Published Jul 3, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to create and edit files via symbolic link manipulation in a location they would otherwise not have access to. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-274

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner trellix
Published Jul 3, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 21, 2020
Link CVE-2020-7283
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2020-7283
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2020-7283