CVE-2021-31842

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-31842
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-17 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:35:00 UTC
DescriptionXML 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-776

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security All All All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 april_2020 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 april_2021 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 february_2020 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 february_2021 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 july_2020 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 june_2021 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 november_2020 All All
Application Mcafee Endpoint Security 10.7.0 september_2020 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Bulletin - Endpoint Security for Windows update fixes two vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-31843, CVE-2021-31842) and updates the cURL library kc.mcafee.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376203 McAfee Endpoint Security Multiple Vulnerabilities (SB10367)
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