CVE-2020-7274

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in mcafee endpoint security. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

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: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
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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