What is CVE-2023-24579?

CVE-2023-24579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Total Protection, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2023-24579?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Mcafee Total Protection

CVE-2023-24579

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.51 allows attackers to trick a victim into uninstalling the application via the command prompt.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2023-03-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (14.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 14.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mcafee Total Protection

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-corporate/mcafee-labs/product-security-bulletins… (Vendor Advisory)
www.mcafee.com/support/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-24579?: CVE-2023-24579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Total Protection, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-24579?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.