CVE-2020-7308

Transmission of data in clear text by McAfee ENS

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Apr 15, 2021
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information between McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) servers using DNS allows a remote attacker to view the requests from ENS and responses from GTI over DNS. By gaining control of an intermediate DNS server or altering the network DNS configuration, it is possible for an attacker to intercept requests and send their own responses.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.8 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndowsMcAfee,LLC	before 10.7.0 February 2021 UpdateAffected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354

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