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CVE-2020-7278: McAfee firewall rules not enforced correctly

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% 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-284

Description

Exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels vulnerability in ENS Firewall in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 and 10.6.1 April 2020 updates allows remote attackers and local users to allow or block unauthorized traffic via pre-existing rules not being handled correctly when updating to the February 2020 updates.

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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