CVE-2021-23874 is an Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability affecting McAfee Total Protection (MTP) versions prior to 16.0.30. This flaw allows a local user to bypass MTP's self-defense mechanisms, gaining elevated privileges and executing arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Notably, this CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as indicated by its presence in the KEV catalog, despite a lack of public exploit intelligence or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 16.0.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.