CVE-2020-7280

Published: Jun 10, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 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. This is timing dependent.

Vendor	Product	Versions
McAfee, LLC	McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)	affected `8.8.x - < 8.8 Patch 15`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10302

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https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-702/

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CVE-2020-7280

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References