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Privilege Escalation vulnerability through symbolic links in ENSM

Published May 8, 2020

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Mac prior to 10.6.9 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved through running a malicious script or program on the target machine.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner trellix
Published May 8, 2020
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Jan 21, 2020

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner trellix
Published May 8, 2020
Updated Sep 16, 2024

GitHub

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