CVE-2020-7280

Symbolic Link vulnerability during DAT update

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jun 10, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)McAfee, LLC	8.8.x to before 8.8 Patch 15Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10302
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-702/

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