CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7257

Published: Apr 15, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
3.3 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.0 (including) 10.5.0 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.1 (including) 10.5.1 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.2 (including) 10.5.2 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.3 (including) 10.5.3 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.4 (including) 10.5.4 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.5.5 (including) 10.5.5 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.0 (including) 10.6.0 (including)

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