CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-31853

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-11-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
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 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-427

Description

DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) prior to 7.3.0 HF2 (7.3.0.183) allows local users to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges via execution from a compromised folder.

Affected configurations

• mcafee drive encryption (>= 7.2.0 <= 7.2.10) • mcafee drive encryption 7.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References