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High severity · published Oct 1, 2021
CVE-2021-23893
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
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)0.1% · higher than 4% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DE
Drive Encryption · Mcafee
before 7.3.0; 7.3.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
DE
Drive Encryption
Mcafee
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23893
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23893
kc.mcafee.com
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10361
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