Vulnerability · Published Mar 23, 2021 · Assigned by trellix

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

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows from McAfee,LLC. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 70.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
McAfee,LLC	McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows	unspecified – before 11.6.100

Weakness: CWE-59 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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