CVE-2020-7264: McAfee Endpoint Security

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• McAfee Endpoint Security: from 10.5.0, before 10.5.5 (fixed in 10.5.5); version 10.6.0 only; version 10.7.0 only

Published 2020-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.