CVE-2021-23876: McAfee Total Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bypass Remote Procedure call in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and perform arbitrary file modification as the SYSTEM user potentially causing Denial of Service via executing carefully constructed malware.

Affected products

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

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