CVE-2020-7257: high-severity vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.4epss 0.3%
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update 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 whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
McAfee LLC · McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)Related CVEs — McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2020-7278HIGHMcAfee firewall rules not enforced correctlyEPSS 0.6%CVE-2020-7250HIGHENS symbolic link log file manipulation vulnerabilityEPSS 0.4%CVE-2020-7275MEDIUMUnquoted service paths for some McAfee ENS filesEPSS 0.3%CVE-2020-7276MEDIUMUnrestricted Policy Management using MfeUpgradeTool.exeEPSS 0.3%CVE-2020-7277MEDIUMMcAfee processes not protectedEPSS 0.3%CVE-2020-7261MEDIUMBuffer overwrite in ENS allowed to bypass AMSI protectionEPSS 0.3%