CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7281

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2020-07-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-07-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Affected configurations

• mcafee total protection (< 16.0.r26)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References