McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise up to 8.8 Patch 14 DAT Update privileges management
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability was found in McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise up to 8.8 Patch 14 (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component DAT Update Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.
The weakness was presented 06/10/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at kc.mcafee.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-7280 since 01/21/2020. An attack has to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
Applying the patch 8.8 Patch 15 is able to eliminate this problem.
See 156461 and 156462 for similar entries.
Product
Type
Vendor
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Version
License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.8
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
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Patch: 8.8 Patch 15
Timeline
01/21/2020 🔍06/10/2020 🔍
06/11/2020 🔍
10/24/2020 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mcafee.comAdvisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍
CVE: CVE-2020-7280 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 06/11/2020 12:15Updated: 10/24/2020 10:38
Changes: 06/11/2020 12:15 (40), 06/11/2020 12:20 (12), 10/24/2020 10:31 (1), 10/24/2020 10:38 (1)
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