PT-2020-19543 · Mcafee · Mcafee Total Protection

Published 2020-08-21 · Updated 2022-06-01 · CVE-2020-7310

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions McAfee Total Protection (MTP) versions prior to 4.0.161.1

Description A Privilege Escalation issue exists in the installer of McAfee Total Protection, allowing local users to manipulate symbolic links and redirect file operations to unintended files, thus changing files that are part of write protection rules.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.161.1, update to version 4.0.161.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-7310

Affected Products

Mcafee Total Protection

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7310 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7310 · Security Note
• https://t.me/sysadm_in_channel/2251 · Telegram Post
• http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103067 · Note
• https://t.me/avleonovcom/805 · Telegram Post