CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23893

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-10-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

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.

Affected configurations

• mcafee drive encryption (< 7.3.0) • mcafee drive encryption 7.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References