McAfee Total Protection < 16.0.51 Uninstall Exploit via CMD
CVE-2023-24579 Published on March 13, 2023
McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.51 allows attackers to trick a victim into uninstalling the application via the command prompt.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-24579 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-24579
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Exploit Probability
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