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ghsa-5jf3-c8qv-652g

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Published

2022-05-24 17:15

Modified

2022-05-24 17:15

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 (GCVE-0-2020-7257)

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

CWE

CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.

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https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309

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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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