CVE-2020-7264

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in ENS for Windows

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: May 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 Hotfix 199847 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WindowsMcAfee,LLC	10.7.x to before 10.7.0 Hotfix 199847Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10316

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