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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2021-23876 – McAfee Total Protection privilege escalation

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-23876

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a bypass remote procedure call flaw. By executing a specially-crafted program, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as SYSTEM.

Impact

Gain Privileges

Affected Vendors

McAfee

Affected Products

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) 16.0

Remediation

Update to the latest version.

McAfee Document ID: TS103114