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CVE-2020-7255: Privilege Escalation vulnerability  in ENS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to gain elevated privileges via ENS not checking user permissions when editing configuration in the ENS client interface. Administrators can lock the ENS client interface through ePO to prevent users being able to edit the configuration.

Affected products

• McAfee LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS): 10.5.0, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.5.5 (+1)

References

• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10309

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