CVE-2021-31853

MDE DLL Search Order Hijacking vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Nov 10, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Apr 27, 2021

Description

DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) prior to 7.3.0 HF2 (7.3.0.183) allows local users to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges via execution from a compromised folder.

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-427 Uncontrolled search path element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)McAfee,LLC	before 7.3.0 HF2Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10374

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