Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS
CVE-2020-7257

8.4HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Mcafee Llc

Status
Mcafee Endpoint Security (ens)
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 April 2020

What is CVE-2020-7257?

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 Version(s)

McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.x < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB1...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.4
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

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