VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-23893

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.15%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references