CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7274

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

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current users privileges).

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