CVE-2020-7330 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial versions prior to 4.0.176.1, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) involves manipulating environment variables to schedule malicious software via legitimate tasks, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.0.176.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.