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High severity · published Oct 14, 2020
CVE-2020-7330
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.176.1 allows local users to schedule tasks which call malicious software to execute with…
8.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.176.1 allows local users to schedule tasks which call malicious software to execute with elevated privileges via editing of environment variables
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TP
Total Protection · Mcafee
before 4.0.176.1 · source: NVD
Affected product
TP
Total Protection
Mcafee
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7330
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7330
service.mcafee.com
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103082
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