CVE-2022-43751 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00073.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Mcafee Subscribe	Total Protection Subscribe

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://mcafee.com
https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103348&page=shell&shell=article-view

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2022-43751

Vulnrichment

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

NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2022-43751

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-427

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