CVE-2021-31842CWE-776

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…

Medium · published September 17, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00227 · 12.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-776 · Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Published
2021-09-17T13:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 13:35Z
    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…
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