CVE-2020-7280 (GCVE-0-2020-7280)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-06-10 11:52
Modified
2024-09-16 16:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
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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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| McAfee, LLC | McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) |
Version: 8.8.x < 8.8 Patch 15 |
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