FKIE_CVE-2022-43751

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-23 00:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:07
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://mcafee.comProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103348&page=shell&shell=article-viewVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mcafee.comProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103348&page=shell&shell=article-viewVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mcafee total_protection *
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