CVE-2020-7280: McAfee Virusscan Enterprise

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

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing dependent.

Affected products

• McAfee Virusscan Enterprise: version 8.8 only

Published 2020-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.