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CVE-2020-7264

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 Hotfix 199847 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.

  • Published: May 8, 2020
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2020-7264
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.4
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.6.0 10.6.0.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0 10.7.0.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.5.0 10.5.5