CVE-2021-31842 (GCVE-0-2021-31842)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-17 13:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:10
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Summary
XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and memory consumption resulting in a Denial of Service attack through carefully editing the EPDeploy.xml file and then executing the setup process.
Severity ?
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
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Vendor Product Version
McAfee,LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows Affected: unspecified , < 10.7.0 September 2021 Update (custom)
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