CVE-2021-23893CWE-269

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)

High · published October 1, 2021

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2021-10-01T09:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 09:25Z
    Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)
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