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High · 8.8 CVE-2020-7267 EUVD-2020-28394GHSA-2f9x-cj33-r657

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSEL

Published May 8, 2020 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by trellix

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Linux prior to 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 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 VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Linux 2.0.x – < 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000

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