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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.4 High

CVE-2020-7257

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

McAfee LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)

  • 10.x to < 10.7.0 April 2020 Updateaffected

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