CVE-2020-7330 HIGH

CVE-2020-7330: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial

Vendor Mcafee,Llc
Product McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Trial
Weakness CWE-269
Published October 14, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.176.1 allows local users to schedule tasks which call malicious software to execute with elevated privileges via editing of environment variables

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 14, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated