🛡️ CVE-2022-0280
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-367 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

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 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
windows

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