CVE-2021-23887
Published Apr 15, 2021
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
- CWE-269
Configurations
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"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4F7C4BC1-0FF3-4D8A-8F05-104ED2615A20",
"versionEndExcluding": "11.6.100.41"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]