CVE-2020-7268
Path Traversal vulnerability in McAfee McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) prior to 7.6.406 allows remote attackers to traverse the file system to access files or directories that are outside of the restricted directory via external input to construct a path name that should be within a restricted directory.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (61th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2020-28395)
- Published
- September 16, 2020
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2020-28395 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 4, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mcafee / email gateway
Certified products that may be affected
5 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- McAfee Email Gateway L1 - McAfee, Inc. - FIPS 140 2233 - historical
- McAfee Email Gateway L2 - McAfee, Inc. - FIPS 140 2234 - historical
- McAfee® Email Gateway (MEG) software v7.0.1, running on VMware server - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-241 - archived
- McAfee® Email Gateway (MEG) software v7.0.1, running on appliance models 4000-B, 4500-B, 5000(B, C & C-2U), 5500(B & C), and the Content Security Blade Server - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-198 - archived
- McAfee® Email Gateway (MEG) software v7.0.1, running on appliance models 4000-B, 4500-B, 5000(B, C & C-2U), 5500(B & C), and the Content Security Blade Server - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-198 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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