CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-7257
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264, CWE-269
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.
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 · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness