High severity · published Apr 15, 2020
CVE-2020-7250
Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an…
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Endpoint Security · Mcafee
10.5.0; 10.5.1; 10.5.2; 10.5.3; 10.5.4; 10.5.5; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7250
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7250
kc.mcafee.com
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309
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