CVE-2023-24578

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Description

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks.

References

https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103397&page=shell&shell=article-view

https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-corporate/mcafee-labs/product-security-bulletins.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-03-13

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N