Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-28473 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.
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Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Description Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time. Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:25:49.105Z

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

Link: CVE-2020-7346

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-23T16:15:13.940

Modified: 2026-02-23T20:27:54.730

Link: CVE-2020-7346

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