{"id":"CVE-2020-7254","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7254","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:28:31.948Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.","published":"2020-03-12T11:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:36.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-264","CWE-269"],"affected":["mcafee/advanced threat defense"],"epss":{"score":0.003,"percentile":0.22556,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10311","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10311","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7254","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}