CVE-2021-23887CWE-269

Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

High · published April 15, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00217 · 11.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2021-04-15T07:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 07:55Z
    Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
    cvelistv5