CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7274

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])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
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-269

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

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-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References