CVE-2022-43751

HIGH

McAfee Total Protection <16.0.49 - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

McAfee Total Protection prior to version 16.0.49 contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability due to the use of a variable pointing to a subdirectory that may be controllable by an unprivileged user. This may have allowed the unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 22.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (1)
mcafee/total_protection < 16.0.49
Published Nov 23, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026