CVE-2020-7293

9.0 criticalEPSS 0.7%

Critical (9.0) in mcafee web gateway. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.0 critical

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2020-09-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:web_gateway

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10323
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10323

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