CVE-2020-7267

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7267
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-08 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:25:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Linux prior to 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 - All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch1 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch10 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch11 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch12 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch13 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch2 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch3 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch4 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch5 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch6 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch7 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch8 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch9 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 - All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch1 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch10 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch11 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch12 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch13 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch2 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch3 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch4 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch5 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch6 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch7 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch8 All All
Application Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise 8.8 patch9 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
McAfee Security Bulletin - Endpoint products update to protect against arbitrary file deletion via symbolic links vulnerability (CVE-2020-7264, CVE-2020-7265, CVE-2020-7266, CVE-2020-7267) CONFIRM kc.mcafee.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Rack911 Labs discovered this vulnerability.

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