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CVE-2020-7266

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.

Published

2020-05-08T12:15:12.207

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:36:57.453

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-274
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-269
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application mcafee virusscan_enterprise < 1.9.2 Yes
Application mcafee virusscan_enterprise < 2.0.3 Yes
References