CVE-2020-7274: McAfee Endpoint Security

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

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.