CVE-2019-3617 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting McAfee Total Protection for Mac OS versions prior to 4.6. It allows a local attacker to gain root privileges by exploiting incorrect protection of temporary files, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While the CVSS score is 8.2, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:mac_os:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.