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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2020-7266: Endpoint products update to protect against arbitrary file deletion via symbolic links vulnerability (SB10316)

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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2020-7266: Endpoint products update to protect against arbitrary file deletion via symbolic links vulnerability (SB10316)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/08/2020
Created
08/12/2020
Added
08/11/2020
Modified
03/10/2022

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

Solution(s)

  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-5-5-5358
  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-6-1-1963
  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-7-0-1733

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