CVE-2020-7314

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.36% (29th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the installer in McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL) Client for Mac shipped with McAfee Agent (MA) for Mac prior to MA 5.6.6 allows local users to run commands as root via incorrectly applied permissions on temporary files.

cvss

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

8.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · trellixpsirt@trellix.comexploitability 1.5 · impact 6

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

McAfee LLC McAfee DXL for Mac shipped with MA5.6.x → 5.6.6enisa_euvdEU
mcafee mcafee agent< 5.6.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:mcafee_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-09-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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