01 Record
CVE-2021-23872
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: trellix
CNA base score7.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 36.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-05-12 09:00Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 19:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-01-12
- Assigning CNA
- trellix
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ab1c2ba2550a66286573a2f69cb11a6354b93eca070415979179b9ef42478595
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- service.mcafee.comhttp://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103146