CVE-2020-7337

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 9, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 21, 2020

Description

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 16 allows local administrators to bypass local security protection through VSE not correctly integrating with Windows Defender Application Control via careful manipulation of the Code Integrity checks.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)McAfee, LLC	8.8.x through patch 15Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10338

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