McAfee Endpoint Security up to 10.7.0 on Windows McTray.exe privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in McAfee Endpoint Security up to 10.7.0 on Windows. This affects an unknown part of the file McTray.exe. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-7274. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in McAfee Endpoint Security up to 10.7.0 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file McTray.exe. 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. CVE summarizes:

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).

The weakness was presented 04/15/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at kc.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-7274 since 01/21/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Applying the patch 10.7.0 April 2020 Update is able to eliminate this problem.

See VDB-153842, VDB-153843, VDB-153844 and VDB-153845 for similar entries. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• McAfee

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• Endpoint Security

Version

• 10.0
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 10.3
• 10.4
• 10.5
• 10.6
• 10.7.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.mcafee.com/

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