CVE-2020-7254: McAfee Advanced Threat Defense

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command.

Affected products

• McAfee Advanced Threat Defense: from 4.0, before 4.8.2 (fixed in 4.8.2)

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