CVE-2020-7250

ENS symbolic link log file manipulation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Apr 15, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)McAfee LLC	10.x to before 10.7.0 April 2020 UpdateAffected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309

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