CVE-2020-7257

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
McAfee LLCMcAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)10.x < 10.7.0 April 2020 Updateaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-264: CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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