CVE-2020-7274

ENS elevated permissions vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.6 Medium
Published
Apr 15, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 21, 2020

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Description

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 user's privileges).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:Ltrellix

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

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

References

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