CVE-2023-24577: McAfee Total Protection

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.50 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to Improper Link Resolution via registry keys. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: before 16.0.50 (fixed in 16.0.50)

Published 2023-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.