CVE-2020-7323Authentication Protection Bypass vulnerability in ENS for Windows
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Authentication Protection Bypass vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2020 Update allows physical local users to bypass the Windows lock screen via triggering certain detection events while the computer screen is locked and the McTray.exe is running with elevated privileges. This issue is timing dependent and requires physical access to the machine.
Timeline
ID reserved
By trellix
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
McAfee LLC · Endpoint Security for Windows
- affected 10.7.x – < 10.7.0 September 2020 Update
References
References1
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10327 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-28450 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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