CVE-2022-43751

HIGH

McAfee Total Protection <16.0.49 - Code Injection

Title source: llm

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)

[Product] https://mcafee.com

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103348&page=shell&shell=article-view

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 22.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Affected Products (1)

mcafee/total_protection < 16.0.49

Timeline

Published Nov 23, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026