CVE-2021-23887 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00035.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mcafee	Data Loss Prevention Endpoint

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-10813	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2021-04-15T07:55:15

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.191Z

Reserved: 2021-01-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-23887

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-15T08:15:14.713

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:00.433

Link: CVE-2021-23887

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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