CVE-2019-3636: McAfee Total Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A File Masquerade vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) version 16.0.R21 and earlier in Windows client allowed an attacker to read the plaintext list of AV-Scan exclusion files from the Windows registry, and to possibly replace excluded files with potential malware without being detected.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: up to and including 16.0.r21

Published 2019-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.