CVE-2020-7250

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in mcafee endpoint security. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2020-04-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:endpoint_security

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309

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