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Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and memory consumption resulting in a Denial of Service attack through carefully editing the EPDeploy.xml file and then executing the setup process.

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Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information between McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) servers using DNS allows a remote attacker to view the requests from ENS and responses from GTI over DNS. By gaining control of an intermediate DNS server or altering the network DNS configuration, it is possible for an attacker to intercept requests and send their own responses.

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Severity
4.8
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

A stored cross site scripting vulnerability in ePO extension of McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows an ENS ePO administrator to add a script to a policy event which will trigger the script to be run through a browser block page when a local non-administrator user triggers the policy.

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Severity
4.9
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local administrator to cause Windows to crash via a specific system call which is not handled correctly. This varies by machine and had partial protection prior to this update.

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Severity
8.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Improper Access Control vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows local administrators to prevent the installation of some ENS files by placing carefully crafted files where ENS will be installed. This is only applicable to clean installations of ENS as the Access Control rules will prevent modification prior to up an upgrade.

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Severity
6.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Improper Access Control in attribute in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows authenticated local administrator user to perform an uninstallation of the anti-malware engine via the running of a specific command with the correct parameters.

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Severity
8.8
CSRF
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in the firewall ePO extension of McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) prior to 10.7.0 November 2020 Update allows an attacker to execute arbitrary HTML code due to incorrect security configuration.

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Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Unquoted service executable path in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) prior to 10.7.0 November 2020 Update allows local users to cause a denial of service and malicious file execution via carefully crafted and named executable files.

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Severity
6.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Authentication Protection Bypass vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows physical local users to bypass the Windows lock screen via triggering certain detection events while the computer screen is locked and the McTray.exe is running with elevated privileges. This issue is timing dependent and requires physical access to the machine.

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Severity
4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows local users to gain access to sensitive information via incorrectly logging of sensitive information in debug logs.

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Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Improper Access Control vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows local users to access files which the user otherwise would not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect McAfee file operations to an unintended file.

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Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 Hotfix 199847 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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Severity
4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to gain elevated privileges via ENS not checking user permissions when editing configuration in the ENS client interface. Administrators can lock the ENS client interface through ePO to prevent users being able to edit the configuration.

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Severity
8.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges by pointing the link to files which the user which not normally have permission to alter via carefully creating symbolic links from the ENS log file directory.

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Severity
8.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was in progress. This is timing dependent.

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Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation of Privilege/Trust vulnerability in file in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to bypass local security protection via a carefully crafted input file

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Severity
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Accessing, modifying or executing executable files vulnerability in the uninstaller in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a carefully crafted input file.

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Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McTray.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows Prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Protection mechanism failure in all processes in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows local users to stop certain McAfee ENS processes, reducing the protection offered.

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Severity
6.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Authentication bypass vulnerability in MfeUpgradeTool in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 April 2020 Update allows administrator users to access policy settings via running this tool.

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Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security (ENS) Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS.

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