CVE-2020-7257
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 17th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264, CWE-269
- Affected
- mcafee/endpoint security
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.