CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7250

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-04-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-04-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.

Affected configurations

• mcafee endpoint security 10.5.0 • mcafee endpoint security 10.5.1 • mcafee endpoint security 10.5.2 • mcafee endpoint security 10.5.3 • mcafee endpoint security 10.5.4 • mcafee endpoint security 10.5.5 • mcafee endpoint security 10.6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References