Medium severity · published Sep 17, 2021
CVE-2021-31842
XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and…
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and memory consumption resulting in a Denial of Service attack through carefully editing the EPDeploy.xml file and then executing the setup process.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Endpoint Security · Mcafee
before 10.7.0; 10.7.0; 10.7.0; 10.7.0; 10.7.0; 10.7.0; +3 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31842
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31842
kc.mcafee.com
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10367
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