Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
CVE-2020-7346

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Mcafee,llc
Status
Mcafee Data Loss Prevention (dlp) Endpoint For Windows
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 March 2021

Summary

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

Affected Version(s)

McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows Windows < 11.6.100

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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