CVE-2020-7280

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
10/06/2020
Last modified:
07/11/2023

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 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. This is timing dependent.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:-:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch1:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch10:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch11:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch12:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch13:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch14:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch2:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch3:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch4:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch5:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch6:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch7:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch8:*:*:*:windows:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:8.8:patch9:*:*:*:windows:*:*