CVE-2020-7259

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Exploitation of Privilege/Trust vulnerability in file in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to bypass local security protection via a carefully crafted input file

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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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