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CVE-2020-7274
ENS elevated permissions vulnerability
Medium6.6EPSS 0.23%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
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).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| 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)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.6.
Weakness
Affected products
McAfee LLC · McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
- affected 10.x – < 10.7.0 April 2020 Update
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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