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CVE-2020-7274: ENS elevated permissions vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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-269

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

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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