CVE-2020-7280
moderate-risk
Published 2020-06-10
Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 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. This is timing dependent.
Do I need to act?
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0.04% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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7
CVSS 7.8/10
High
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (15)
Affected Vendors
42
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
0/34 · Minimal
Exposure
18/34 · Moderate