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CVE-2022-0280

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - File Deletion vulnerability

CVSS 7.5 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-367
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.5EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
10 Mar 2022Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

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