Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

published 2020-12-09 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28464

cvss: 6.5; 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 35%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 16 allows local administrators to bypass local security protection through VSE not correctly integrating with Windows Defender Application Control via careful manipulation of the Code Integrity checks.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

mcafee virusscan_enterprise 8.8

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Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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 VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

kc.mcafee.com /corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10338

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-7337
NVD CVE-2020-7337

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