CVE-2021-23873

lowpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.007 · 51 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.65% (51st) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.6–7.8

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 4.2

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · trellixpsirt@trellix.comexploitability 1.1 · impact 6

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

McAfee,LLC McAfee Total Protection (MTP)unspecified → 16.0.30enisa_euvdEU
mcafee total protection< 16.0.30nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-02-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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