VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-23887

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-04-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • trellixpsirt@trellix.com: CWE-269
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references