Description
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 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.
Published: 2020-05-08
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-28393 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 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.
History

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:15:00 +0000

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Title Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSE for Windows Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSE for Windows

Subscriptions

Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T04:04:21.109Z

Reserved: 2020-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-7266

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-08T12:15:12.207

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:36:57.453

Link: CVE-2020-7266

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