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CVE-2020-7320
Protection Mechanism Failure in ENS for Windows
Medium6.7EPSS 0.26%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows local administrator to temporarily reduce the detection capability allowing otherwise detected malware to run via stopping certain Microsoft services.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.26% · top 82% 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 6.7.
Weakness
Affected products
McAfee LLC · Endpoint Security for Windows
- affected 10.7.x – < 10.7.0 September 2020 Update
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10327 (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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