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CVE-2020-7266

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSE for Windows PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
McAfee,LLC / McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windowsaffected 8.8.x before 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778

CWE

CWE-274

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.