CVE-2020-7266

HIGH

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise < 1.9.2 - Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-274 CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
mcafee/virusscan_enterprise 1.9.0 - 1.9.2
Published May 08, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026