Description
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.
Published: 2022-11-22
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-46728 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.
History

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Mcafee Total Protection
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-29T04:12:13.188Z

Reserved: 2022-10-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-43751

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:40:06.457Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-23T00:15:11.123

Modified: 2025-04-29T05:15:45.410

Link: CVE-2022-43751

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