CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-23887

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.

7.2 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

7.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354 Not Applicable
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357 Patch Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-04-15 08:15

Updated : 2021-04-27 02:08

NVD link : CVE-2021-23887

Mitre link : CVE-2021-23887

Products Affected

Data Loss Prevention Endpoint

Mcafee

CWE
CWE-269