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CVE-2020-7254
Privilege escalation in Advanced Threat Defense
High7.7EPSS 0.30%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
Affected products
McAfee, LLC · McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD)
- affected 4.x – < 4.8.2
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10311 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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