CVE-2022-0280 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2022-0280

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - File Deletion vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

A race condition vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to 16.0.43 that allows a local user to gain privilege elevation and perform an arbitrary file delete. This could lead to sensitive files being deleted and potentially cause denial of service. This attack exploits the way symlinks are created and how the product works with them.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

McAfee Total Protection for Windows
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified

Timeline

Official Publish: March 10th, 2022
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection