CVE-2020-7250 (GCVE-0-2020-7250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-15 12:45 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:18
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Summary
Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Affected: 10.x , < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update (custom)
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Credits
McAfee credits Jakub Palaczynski  (ING Tech Poland) and Eran Shimony (CyberArk) for independently reporting this flaw
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