Medium severity6.6NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-7274
CVE-2020-7274
Description
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).
Affected products
9cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.0:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*+ 6 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.0:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.1:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.2:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.3:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.4:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.5.5:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.6.0:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
- Range: <10.7.0 April 2020 Update
- McAfee LLC/McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)v5Range: 10.x
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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