cve-2020-7257
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-15 12:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:38
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.
References
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Version: 10.x   < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update
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