{"id":23660,"date":"2022-03-14T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=23660"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:00:53","slug":"mcafee-total-protection-update-fixt-cve-2022-0280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/03\/14\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixt-cve-2022-0280\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee Total Protection Update fixes CVE-2022-0280"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" alt=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sicherheit_klein.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/14\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixt-cve-2022-0280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]McAfee has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/service.mcafee.com\/?locale=en-US&amp;articleId=TS103271&amp;page=shell&amp;shell=article-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security alert<\/a> and update for McAfee Total Protection. The update fixes the CVE-2022-0280 vulnerability, which is rated high. A vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to version 16.0.43 that allows a local user to escalate their privileges and delete arbitrary files. This could result in sensitive files being deleted and potentially cause a denial of service. This attack exploits the way symlinks are created and how the product works with them. Details can be found in the security alert dated 7\/3\/2022.&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/news\/McAfee-Total-Protection-Angreifer-koennten-Daten-loeschen-6548499.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]McAfee has released a security alert and update for McAfee Total Protection. The update fixes the CVE-2022-0280 vulnerability, which is rated high. A vulnerability exists in the QuickClean feature of McAfee Total Protection for Windows prior to version 16.0.43 that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/03\/14\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixt-cve-2022-0280\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,1547,22],"tags":[646,69,1544,195],"class_list":["post-23660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-update","tag-antivirus","tag-security","tag-software","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}