CVE-2020-7274

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-7274
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 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).

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

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
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 Lockheed Martin Red Team for reporting this flaw

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