CVE-2023-24579 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.51 allows attackers to trick a victim into uninstalling the application via the command prompt.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mcafee	Total Protection

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-corporate/mcafee-labs/product-security-bulletins.html
https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103397&page=shell&shell=article-view

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-20

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-03-13T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-03T20:04:36.543Z

Reserved: 2023-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-24579

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:03:18.843Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-13T13:15:11.847

Modified: 2025-03-03T20:15:37.980

Link: CVE-2023-24579

Redhat

No data.

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