CVE-2021-31840: A vulnerability in the preloading mechanism of specific dynamic link libraries in McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.3 could allow an authenticated, local…

PriorityP335high7.3CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.35%

26.6th percentile

A vulnerability in the preloading mechanism of specific dynamic link libraries in McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.3 could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a DLL preloading attack with unsigned DLLs. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to have valid credentials on the Windows system. This would result in the user gaining elevated permissions and being able to execute arbitrary code.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	mcafee_agent	>= 5.0.0 < 5.7.3	5.7.3
mcafee_llc	mcafee_agent_for_windows	>= unspecified < 5.7.3	5.7.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.3HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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