CVE-2020-7253: McAfee Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper access control vulnerability in masvc.exe in McAfee Agent (MA) prior to 5.6.4 allows local users with administrator privileges to disable self-protection via a McAfee supplied command-line utility.

Affected products

• McAfee Agent: from 5.5.0, before 5.5.4 (fixed in 5.5.4); from 5.6.0, before 5.6.4 (fixed in 5.6.4)

Published 2020-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.