McAfee Total Protection (MTP) privilege escalation vulnerability

published 2021-02-10 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-10799

cvss: 7.8; 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

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file deletion as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via manipulating Junction link, after enumerating certain files, at a specific time.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection (MTP) 16.0.30

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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	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD	2.0	3.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-23873
NVD CVE-2021-23873

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