CVE-2020-7257

MediumCVSS 6.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264 CWE-269

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
McAfee LLC	McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)	>= 10.x, < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update

References

Timeline

Published: Apr 15, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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