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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2020· Updated Sep 17, 2024

Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in VSE for Windows

CVE-2020-7266

Description

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 products

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  • Range: <8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778
  • McAfee,LLC/McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windowsv5
    Range: 8.8.x

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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