CVE-2020-7257
HIGH 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 v3.1
- 6.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 8.4 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0
- 3.3 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 16th percentile
- Published
- 2020-04-15
- Updated
- 2024-09-16
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- shubham0d/Antivirus-Symlink-Exploit9★ · 2020-06-19