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High · 8.8 CVE-2020-7265 EUVD-2020-28392GHSA-m258-8c72-m4v5

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in ENSM

Published May 8, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by trellix

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Mac prior to 10.6.9 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
McAfee,LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Mac 10.6.x – ≤ 10.6.9 —

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