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GHSA-CPP4-9GGM-FR5X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:20 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:20

Details

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 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. This is timing dependent.

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CVE-2020-7280 (GCVE-0-2020-7280)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-10 11:52 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:53

Summary

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

trellix

References

URL

Tags

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	McAfee, LLC	McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)	Affected: 8.8.x , < 8.8 Patch 15 (custom)

Credits

McAfee credits Glennlloyd working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this flaw.

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-CPP4-9GGM-FR5X

CVE-2020-7280 (GCVE-0-2020-7280)

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