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CVE-2020-7293

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.

  • Published: Sep 15, 2020
  • Updated: Nov 16, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2020-7293
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9
  • AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.7
  • AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
mcafee / web_gateway 7.8.0 7.8.2.23
mcafee / web_gateway 8.2.0 8.2.11
mcafee / web_gateway 9.0.0 9.2.3