CVE-2020-7257

HIGH

McAfee Endpoint Security for Windows - Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.4
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

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