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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2020-7257: Endpoint security for windows update fixes multiple vulnerabilities (SB10309)

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McAfee Endpoint Security Platform: CVE-2020-7257: Endpoint security for windows update fixes multiple vulnerabilities (SB10309)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/15/2020
Created
08/12/2020
Added
08/11/2020
Modified
03/10/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-5-5-5352
  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-6-1-1936
  • mcafee-endpoint-security-platform-upgrade-10-7-0-1675

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