CVE-2020-7280 is a vulnerability in McAfee Virusscan Enterprise
Published on June 10, 2020
Symbolic Link vulnerability during DAT update
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-7280 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-7280
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Affected Versions
McAfee, LLC McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE):- Version 8.8.x and below 8.8 Patch 15 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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