Privilege escalation in Mcafee Total Protection

CVE-2020-7310

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the installer in McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP) trial prior to 4.0.161.1 allows local users to change files that are part of write protection rules via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (19.7th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 19.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2020-7310: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7310?
CVE-2020-7310 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Total Protection, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.9/10. Published 2020-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-7310?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.9 out of 10.