VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-23895

CVSS score9 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.87%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-06-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in McAfee Database Security (DBSec) prior to 4.8.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to create a reverse shell with administrator privileges on the DBSec server via carefully constructed Java serialized object sent to the DBSec server.

Weakness classification

  • trellixpsirt@trellix.com: CWE-502
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-502

Primary references