CVE-2021-23887
Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Apr 15, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 12, 2021
Description
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to write to arbitrary controlled kernel addresses. This is achieved by launching applications, suspending them, modifying the memory and restarting them when they are monitored by McAfee DLP through the hdlphook driver.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | trellix |
Weaknesses
- CWE-269 Privilege escalation vulnerability
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for WindowsMcAfee,LLC |
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References
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