CVE-2020-7274

MEDIUM

McAfee Endpoint Security for Windows - Privilege Escalation via McTray.exe

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.6
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 29.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-269
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