Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)