CVE-2021-23887
highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.002 · 12 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to write to arbitrary controlled kernel addresses. This is achieved by launching applications, suspending them, modifying the memory and restarting them when they are monitored by McAfee DLP through the hdlphook driver.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (2)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- McAfee,LLC McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windowsunspecified → 10.6.100.41enisa_euvdEU
- mcafee data loss prevention endpoint< 11.6.100.41nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (3)
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sources
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references (8)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354cnnvd
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23887cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.1292cnnvd
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354enisa_euvd
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357enisa_euvd
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10354Broken Linknvd
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10357Broken Linknvd
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