CVE-2020-7280: Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.40%

31.9th percentile

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	virusscan_enterprise	—	—
mcafee_llc	mcafee_virusscan_enterprise	>= 8.8.x < 8.8 Patch 15	8.8 Patch 15

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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