CVE-2021-23874 on CISA KEV

Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Arbitrary Process Execution vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.30 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code bypassing MTP self-defense.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• service.mcafee.com — http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103114

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
McAfee,LLC	McAfee Total Protection (MTP)	unspecified

06Detection

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