CVE-2021-23878

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in ENS

State
Published
Severity
7.3 High
Published
Feb 10, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 12, 2021

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Description

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local user to view ENS settings and credentials via accessing process memory after the ENS administrator has performed specific actions. To exploit this, the local user has to access the relevant memory location immediately after an ENS administrator has made a configuration change through the console on their machine

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Htrellix

Weaknesses

  • CWE-312 Cleartext storage of sensitive information

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Endpoint Security (ENS) for WindowsMcAfee LLC
  • 10.7.x to before 10.7.0 February 2021Affected

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