CVE-2021-23887 — Improper Privilege Management in LLC Mcafee Data Loss Prevention Endpoint FOR Windows
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 89.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 15
Latest updateMay 24
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9