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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-7281

CVE-2020-7281

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 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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Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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