{"id":"CVE-2020-7330","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7330","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:26:11.189Z","title":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.176.1 allows local users to schedule tasks which call malicious software to execute with elevated privileges via editing of environment variables","description":"Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.176.1 allows local users to schedule tasks which call malicious software to execute with elevated privileges via editing of environment variables","published":"2020-10-14T09:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:44.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["mcafee/total protection"],"epss":{"score":0.0027,"percentile":0.19091,"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 (0.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103082","source":"trellixpsirt@trellix.com"},{"url":"http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103082","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7330","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."}