CVE-2020-7346

Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Mar 23, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jan 21, 2020

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Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Htrellix

Weaknesses

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for WindowsMcAfee,LLC
  • before 11.6.100Affected

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