Implicit loading of DLLs

published 2019-11-13 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13283

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows client in McAfee Total Protection 16.0.R22 and earlier allows administrators to execute arbitrary code via carefully placing malicious files in specific locations protected by administrator permission.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection 16.0.R22 Refresh 1

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Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
NVD	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-3648
NVD CVE-2019-3648

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