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CVE-2021-23893

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CVE-2021-23893

Published: Oct 1, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

McAfee,LLC

McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE)

affected
unspecified - < 7.3.0 HF1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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