CVE-2021-23887 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8