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GHSA-5JF3-C8QV-652G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:15 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:15

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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.

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CVE-2020-7257 (GCVE-0-2020-7257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-15 12:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:38

Title

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS

Summary

Severity

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Assigner

trellix CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 3 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
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Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
McAfee LLC	McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)	Affected: 10.x , < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update (custom)

Date Public

2020-04-14 00:00

Credits

McAfee  credits  Jakub  Palaczynski  (ING Tech Poland) for reporting this flaw

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