CVE-2021-23873: McAfee Total Protection

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file deletion as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via manipulating Junction link, after enumerating certain files, at a specific time.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: before 16.0.30 (fixed in 16.0.30)

Published 2021-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.