Privilege Escalation vulnerability in MVISION Endpoint

published 2020-09-09 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28452

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits: 0; none known

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee MVISION Endpoint prior to 20.9 Update allows local users to access files which the user otherwise would not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

McAfee LLC MVISION Endpoint 20.9

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Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee LLC MVISION Endpoint

Classification

Weakness

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10328

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7325
NVD CVE-2020-7325

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