CVE detail

CVE-2020-7293 — CVE-2020-7293

Published 2020-09-15 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor mcafee · Product web_gateway · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.0

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0066

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

48.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows authenticated user interface user with low permissions to change the system's root password via improper access controls in the user interface.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.