CVE-2020-7280

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7280
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-10 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:25:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege 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.

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 patch14 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 patch14 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 - VirusScan Enterprise update fixes three vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-3585, CVE-2019-3588, and CVE-2020-7280) kc.mcafee.com
ZDI-20-702 | Zero Day Initiative MISC www.zerodayinitiative.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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: McAfee credits Glennlloyd working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this flaw.

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