CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7277

Protection Mechanism Failure

Published: Apr 15, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Protection mechanism failure in all processes in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to stop certain McAfee ENS processes, reducing the protection offered.

Weakness

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

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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