File masquerade attack vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

CVE-2019-3636

What is CVE-2019-3636?

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.

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