VYPR
High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-7257

CVE-2020-7257

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.

Affected products

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Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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