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CVE-2020-7257

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CVE-2020-7257

Published: Apr 15, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.4

HIGH

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update 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 whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.

VendorProductVersions

McAfee LLC

McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)

affected
10.x - < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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