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CVE-2020-7280

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.40%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-06-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-7280
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.40%

Original NVD Description

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.