CVE-2021-23876

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in mcafee total protection. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bypass Remote Procedure call in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via executing carefully constructed malware.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2021-02-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:total_protection

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103114
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103114

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