{"id":"CVE-2020-7310","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7310","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:32:43.127Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file…","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.","published":"2020-08-21T09:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["mcafee/total protection"],"epss":{"score":0.00293,"percentile":0.2175,"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 (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103067","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103067","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7310","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."}