CVE-2020-7250: McAfee Endpoint Security

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• McAfee Endpoint Security: version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only; version 10.5.5 only; …

Published 2020-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.