CVE-2021-23887Improper 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
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

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-gjh7-83g9-wq47: Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 112022-05-24
CVEList
Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows2021-04-15
CVE-2021-23887 — Improper Privilege Management | cvebase