CVE-2021-23893

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Oct 1, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 12, 2021

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)McAfee,LLC	before 7.3.0 HF1Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10361

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