{"id":"CVE-2020-7281","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7281","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:24:34.337Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 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.","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 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.","published":"2020-07-03T14:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["mcafee/total protection"],"epss":{"score":0.00256,"percentile":0.1712,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/cp/home/articleview?articleId=TS103062","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"https://service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/cp/home/articleview?articleId=TS103062","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7281","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."}