CVE-2020-7266: 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…

PriorityP337high8.4CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSCCNIHAH

EPSS

0.25%

15.9th percentile

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	virusscan_enterprise	>= 1.9.0 < 1.9.2	1.9.2
mcafee	virusscan_enterprise	>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.3	2.0.3
mcafee_llc	mcafee_virusscan_enterprise_for_windows	>= 8.8.x < 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778	8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.4HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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