CVE-2020-7310 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

Published: 2020-08-21

Score: 6.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

McAfee,LLC

McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Trial

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 4.0.161.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection:*:*:*:*:trial:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-28437	Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00038.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?&id=TS103067

History

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Subscriptions

Mcafee Total Protection

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2020-08-21T08:30:16.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:25:48.981Z

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

Link: CVE-2020-7310

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-08-21T09:15:10.987

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:37:02.383

Link: CVE-2020-7310

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-269

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