CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23878

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2021-02-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-312

Description

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local user to view ENS settings and credentials via accessing process memory after the ENS administrator has performed specific actions. To exploit this, the local user has to access the relevant memory location immediately after an ENS administrator has made a configuration change through the console on their machine

Affected configurations

• mcafee endpoint security (< 10.7.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness

References