CVE-2020-7255

LOW

McAfee Endpoint Security for Windows - Privilege Escalation via Unchecked Configuration Editing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to gain elevated privileges via ENS not checking user permissions when editing configuration in the ENS client interface. Administrators can lock the ENS client interface through ePO to prevent users being able to edit the configuration.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 3.9
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-264
Status published
Products (7)
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.0
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.1
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.2
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.3
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.4
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.5.5
mcafee/endpoint_security 10.6.0
Published Apr 15, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026