CVE-2020-7320

Protection Mechanism Failure in ENS for Windows

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Sep 9, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows local administrator to temporarily reduce the detection capability allowing otherwise detected malware to run via stopping certain Microsoft services.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Endpoint Security for WindowsMcAfee LLC	10.7.x to before 10.7.0 September 2020 UpdateAffected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10327

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