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CVE-2019-3636

File masquerade attack vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 16.0.R22
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

A File Masquerade vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) version 16.0.R21 and earlier in Windows client allowed an attacker to read the plaintext list of AV-Scan exclusion files from the Windows registry, and to possibly replace excluded files with potential malware without being detected.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • McAfee, LCC McAfee Total Protection

    From 16 · fixed in 16.0.R22

References 1

service.mcafee.com