McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute code, bypassing MTP self-defense.

cat cve-2021-23874.json

Vendor: McAfee
Product: McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
CVSS: 8.2
EPSS (exploit probability): 1.0%
Status: kev
CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01): November 17, 2021
Published: November 3, 2021
Source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23874

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute code, bypassing MTP self-defense.

Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2021-11-03. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2021-11-17.

This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.