CVE-2020-7310: McAfee Total Protection

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: before 4.0.161.1 (fixed in 4.0.161.1)

Published 2020-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.