DLL Search Order Hijacking vulnerability

published 2019-01-23 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13222

cvss: 7.2; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits: 0; none known

DLL Search Order Hijacking vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Prior to 16.0.18 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via execution from a compromised folder.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Mcafee Total Protection (MTP) 16.0.R18

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Exploit prediction

1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	7.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Mcafee Total Protection (MTP)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

service.mcafee.com /FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS102887

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-3587
NVD CVE-2019-3587

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