Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)
CVE-2021-23893

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Mcafee,llc
Status
Mcafee Drive Encryption (mde)
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 October 2021

Summary

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.

Affected Version(s)

McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) < 7.3.0 HF1

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB1...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Balazs Bucsay (@xoreipeip), Principal Security Consultant from NCC Group
.