CVE-2020-7266

lowpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.003 · 17 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.26% (17th) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows prior to 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778 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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.6–8.8

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v3.18.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2 · impact 5.8

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · trellixpsirt@trellix.comexploitability 2 · impact 6

v3.17.7highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USprimaryCWE-274US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

McAfee,LLC McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) for Windows8.8.x → 8.8 Patch 14 Hotfix 116778enisa_euvdEU
mcafee virusscan enterprise1.9.0 → 1.9.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mcafee virusscan enterprise2.0.0 → 2.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-05-08modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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