Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-28408 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.R26 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:25:48.689Z

Reserved: 2020-01-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-7281

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-03T14:15:09.897

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:36:58.943

Link: CVE-2020-7281

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