McAfee Total Protection up to 16.0.R25 Symbolic Link insufficient privileges
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A vulnerability was found in McAfee Total Protection up to 16.0.R25. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part of the component Symbolic Link Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient privileges vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-274. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was published 07/03/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at service.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-7281 since 01/21/2020. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
Upgrading to version 16.0.R26 eliminates this vulnerability.
Similar entries are available at 157651, 157652 and 159338.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Insufficient privilegesCWE: CWE-274 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Total Protection 16.0.R26
Timeline
01/21/2020 🔍07/03/2020 🔍
07/04/2020 🔍
10/28/2020 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mcafee.comAdvisory: service.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-7281 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 07/04/2020 07:58Updated: 10/28/2020 20:19
Changes: 07/04/2020 07:58 (40), 07/04/2020 08:03 (11), 10/28/2020 20:11 (1), 10/28/2020 20:19 (1)
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