CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7259

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Apr 15, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Exploitation of Privilege/Trust vulnerability in file in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to bypass local security protection via a carefully crafted input file

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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)

Potential Mitigations

References