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CVE-2020-7346: Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

Affected products

• McAfee Data Loss Prevention(DLP): before 11.6.100 — fixed in 11.6.100

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: McAfee Data Loss Prevention(DLP) 11.6.100. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10344
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10344

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