CVE-2020-7266

8.4 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.4) in mcafee virusscan enterprise. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.4 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-269, CWE-274
Published: 2020-05-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10316
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10316

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