CVE-2020-7337
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 16 allows local administrators to bypass local security protection through VSE not correctly integrating with Windows Defender Application Control via careful manipulation of the Code Integrity checks.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-732
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2020-28464)
- Published
- December 9, 2020
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2020-28464 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
- mcafee / virusscan enterprise
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- McAfee VirusScan Enterprise v8.5i and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator v3.6 - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0047-2007 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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