CVE-2021-23893

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-23893
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-01 10:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:31:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Drive Encryption All All All All
Application Mcafee Drive Encryption 7.3.0 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Bulletin - Drive Encryption update fixes a Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-23893) kc.mcafee.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Balazs Bucsay (@xoreipeip), Principal Security Consultant from NCC Group

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