CVE-2020-7283: McAfee Total Protection

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) before 16.0.R26 allows local users to create and edit files via symbolic link manipulation in a location they would otherwise not have access to. 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.