High severity · published Apr 15, 2021
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 12% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Data Loss Prevention Endpoint · Mcafee
before 11.6.100.41 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23887
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23887
Broken Link
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354
Broken Link
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357
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