ENS elevated permissions vulnerability
CVE-2020-7274

6.6MEDIUM

Key Information:

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

Summary

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).

Affected Version(s)

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

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.6
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

McAfee credits Lockheed Martin Red Team for reporting this flaw
.