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Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial installer

Published Aug 21, 2020

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner trellix
Published Aug 21, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 21, 2020

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner trellix
Published Aug 21, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024

GitHub

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