CVE-2023-24578: McAfee Total Protection

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

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks.

Affected products

• McAfee Total Protection: before 16.0.49 (fixed in 16.0.49)

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