CVE-2020-7282: McAfee Total Protection

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: before 16.0.r26 (fixed in 16.0.r26)

Published 2020-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.