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.
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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 |
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: trellix
Published: 2020-05-08T11:55:14.049262Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T04:04:21.109Z
Reserved: 2020-01-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-7266
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-05-08T12:15:12.207
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:36:57.453
Link: CVE-2020-7266
Redhat
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