CVE-2020-7257

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-7257
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-15 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:25:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.2 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.3 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.4 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.5 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.6.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.2 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.3 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.4 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.5 All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.6.0 All All All

References

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McAfee Security Bulletin - Endpoint Security for Windows update fixes multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-7250, CVE-2020-7255, CVE-2020-7257, CVE-2020-7259, CVE-2020-7261, CVE-2020-7273, CVE-2020-7274, CVE-2020-7275, CVE-2020-7276, CVE-2020-7277, CVE-2020-7278) CONFIRM kc.mcafee.com Vendor Advisory
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

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

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