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High · 8.4 CVE-2020-7257 EUVD-2020-28384GHSA-5jf3-c8qv-652g

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS

Published Apr 15, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by trellix

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
McAfee McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.x – < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update 10.7.0 April 2020 Update

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