GSD-2020-7257

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
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.
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CVE-2020-7257
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