CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-31842

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-09-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-776

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.

Affected configurations

• mcafee endpoint security (< 10.7.0) • mcafee endpoint security 10.7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

References