DLP ePO extension - Privilege escalation

published 2020-08-13 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28432

cvss: 6.7; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits: 0; none known

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ePO extension prior to 11.5.3 allows a low privileged remote attacker to create new rule sets via incorrect validation of user credentials.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee DLP ePO extension 11.3.28, 11.4.200, 11.5.3

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Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

McAfee DLP ePO extension

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10326

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7305
NVD CVE-2020-7305

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