CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7279

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-06-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerability in the installer component of McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention System (Host IPS) for Windows prior to 8.0.0 Patch 15 Update allows attackers with local access to execute arbitrary code via execution from a compromised folder.

Affected configurations

• mcafee host intrusion prevention 8.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References