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ghsa-cpp4-9ggm-fr5x

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:20

Modified

2022-05-24 17:20

Details

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.

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  "published": "2022-05-24T17:20:08Z",
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cve-2020-7280

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-06-10 11:52

Modified

2024-09-16 16:53

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

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	https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-702/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	McAfee, LLC	McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)	Version: 8.8.x < 8.8 Patch 15

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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