CVE-2020-7274 (GCVE-0-2020-7274)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-15 11:30
Modified
2024-09-16 17:04
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Version: 10.x   < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update
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