{"id":"CVE-2020-7293","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7293","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:16:19.277Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.","published":"2020-09-15T23:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["mcafee/web gateway"],"epss":{"score":0.0066,"percentile":0.51312,"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 (0.66%). 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=SB10323","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10323","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7293","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."}