Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee DXL for Mac

published 2020-09-10 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28441

cvss: 8.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits: 0; none known

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee LLC McAfee DXL for Mac shipped with MA 5.6.6

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Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

McAfee LLC McAfee DXL for Mac shipped with MA

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10325

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7314
NVD CVE-2020-7314

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