CVE-2020-7290: McAfee Active Response

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

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Active Response (MAR) for Linux prior to 2.4.3 Hotfix 1 allows a malicious script or program to perform functions that the local executing user has not been granted access to.

Affected products

• McAfee Active Response: before 2.4.3 (fixed in 2.4.3); version 2.4.3 only

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