McAfee Endpoint Security up to 10.7.0 on Windows Protection Mechanism protection mechanism
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A vulnerability was found in McAfee Endpoint Security up to 10.7.0 on Windows. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Protection Mechanism. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The weakness was presented 09/09/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-7320 since 01/21/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
Applying the patch 10.7.0 September 2020 Update is able to eliminate this problem.
See 161052, 161054 and 161055 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7
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Exploiting
Class: Protection mechanismCWE: CWE-693
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Patch: 10.7.0 September 2020 Update
Timeline
01/21/2020 🔍09/09/2020 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mcafee.comAdvisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2020-7320 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 09/09/2020 21:37Updated: 09/09/2020 21:42
Changes: 09/09/2020 21:37 (41), 09/09/2020 21:42 (11)
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