McAfee Total Protection prior 4.0.161.1 Protection Rules improper authorization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Total Protection and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Protection Rules. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-7310. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in McAfee Total Protection. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Protection Rules. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

The weakness was shared 08/21/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at service.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-7310 since 01/21/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.0.161.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

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VulDB Temp Score: 3.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper authorization
CWE: CWE-285 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Total Protection 4.0.161.1

Timelineinfo

01/21/2020 🔍
08/21/2020 +213 days 🔍
08/21/2020 +0 days 🔍
11/10/2020 +81 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: service.mcafee.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-7310 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-7310
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-160094

Entryinfo

Created: 08/21/2020 12:54
Updated: 11/10/2020 16:18
Changes: 08/21/2020 12:54 (38), 08/21/2020 12:59 (11), 11/10/2020 16:10 (1), 11/10/2020 16:18 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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