{"id":27582,"date":"2022-11-08T00:35:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=27582"},"modified":"2022-11-08T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:35:54","slug":"mcafee-total-protection-update-fixes-vulnerability-cve-2022-43751","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/11\/08\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixes-vulnerability-cve-2022-43751\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee Total Protection: Update fixes vulnerability CVE-2022-43751"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sicherheit_klein.jpg\" alt=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/08\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixt-schwachstelle-cve-2022-43751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]McAfee Total Protection had a vulnerability (CVE-2022-43751) that allowed Windows privilege escalation. The cause was the use of the OpenSSL variable OPENSSLDIR. McAfee issued a security alert in late October 2022 pointing out the vulnerability, which has since been closed via update in McAfee Total Protection.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The topic passed me by a bit until I became aware of the following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdormann\/status\/1589611238795145223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> from Will Dormann on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdormann\/status\/1589611238795145223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"McAfee Total Protection CVE-2022-43751\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P01ZoRK.png\" alt=\"McAfee Total Protection CVE-2022-43751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dormann points out that the use of the OpenSSL variable OPENSSLDIR allowed a Windows privilege escalation. This error appeared again and again. McAfee published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/support\/?locale=en-US&amp;articleId=TS103348&amp;page=shell&amp;shell=article-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security bulletin<\/a> on October 31, 2022, regarding a vulnerability in the search path element. The vulnerability, CVE-2022-4375, could allow an attacker to gain access to the device running the vulnerable software or other connected devices.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee Total Protection prior to version 16.0.49 is affected, with the vulnerability receiving a CVSSv3.1 score of 5.6. McAfee has promptly released an update to version 16.0.49 that closes this vulnerability. This update should have been automatically distributed to the affected target systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]McAfee Total Protection had a vulnerability (CVE-2022-43751) that allowed Windows privilege escalation. The cause was the use of the OpenSSL variable OPENSSLDIR. McAfee issued a security alert in late October 2022 pointing out the vulnerability, which has since been closed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/11\/08\/mcafee-total-protection-update-fixes-vulnerability-cve-2022-43751\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,2],"tags":[69,195,194],"class_list":["post-27582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-update","category-windows","tag-security","tag-update","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582","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=27582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}