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🛡️ CVE-2022-0280 — windows

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-367 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

A race condition vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to 16.0.43 that allows a local user to gain privilege elevation and perform an arbitrary file delete. This could lead to sensitive files being deleted and potentially cause denial of service. This attack exploits the way symlinks are created and how the product works with them.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0280 is classified as CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition. The state checked and the state acted upon can differ, because it may change between the two steps.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0280 is recorded against 1 package.

  • windows

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

service.mcafee.com
service.mcafee.com

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-367
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

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