CVE-2020-7346 Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

High 7.8 Published Updated

A local low-privileged attacker can escalate privileges by using junctions to force the McAfee DLP Endpoint to load malicious DLLs.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-7346?

CVE-2020-7346 is a high-severity vulnerability in McAfee,LLC McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows, published on 23 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing. This requires the creation and removal of junctions by the attacker along with sending a specific IOTL command at the correct time.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7346?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mcafee Data Loss Prevention.

How do I fix CVE-2020-7346?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-7346 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-7346 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7346 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-v35m-j976-rqv4.

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