CVE-2021-23887 (GCVE-0-2021-23887)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-15 07:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:14
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-269 - Privilege escalation vulnerability
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| McAfee,LLC | McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows |
Affected:
unspecified , < 10.6.100.41
(custom)
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