VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-31842
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.23%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-09-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 September 2021 Update allows a local user to initiate high CPU and memory consumption resulting in a Denial of Service attack through carefully editing the EPDeploy.xml file and then executing the setup process.
Weakness classification
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com: CWE-776
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-776