CVE-2020-7346 is a vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention
Published on March 23, 2021
Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-7346 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
What is an insecure temporary file Vulnerability?
The software attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.
CVE-2020-7346 has been classified to as an insecure temporary file vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-7346
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Affected Versions
McAfee,LLC McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows:- Version unspecified and below 11.6.100 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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