CVE-2021-23887: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to…

PriorityP341high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.22%

12.1th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	data_loss_prevention_endpoint	< 11.6.100.41	11.6.100.41
mcafee_llc	mcafee_data_loss_prevention_endpoint_for_windows	>= unspecified < 10.6.100.41	10.6.100.41

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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