CVE-2020-7274
What it is
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account, but needs a user to act. High risk of data exposure.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 6.6 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-269 · Improper privilege management
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.0
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.1
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.2
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.3
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.4
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.5.5
- Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.6.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 6.6
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
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