CVE-2021-23878CWE-312

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in ENS

High · published February 10, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local user to view ENS settings and credentials via accessing process memory after the ENS administrator has performed specific actions. To exploit this, the local user has to access the relevant memory location immediately after an ENS administrator has made a configuration change through the console on their machine

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00616 · 48.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Published
2021-02-10T09:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 FEB 09:10Z
    Clear text storage of sensitive Information in ENS
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