CVE-2022-0280

HIGH

McAfee Total Protection for Windows <16.0.43 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A race condition vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to 16.0.43 that allows a local user to gain privilege elevation and perform an arbitrary file delete. This could lead to sensitive files being deleted and potentially cause denial of service. This attack exploits the way symlinks are created and how the product works with them.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 23.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-367
Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/windows
Published Mar 10, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026