cve-2022-43751
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-29 04:12
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
McAfee Total Protection prior to version 16.0.49 contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability due to the use of a variable pointing to a subdirectory that may be controllable by an unprivileged user. This may have allowed the unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.
References
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