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CVE-2021-31842

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.

  • Published: Sep 17, 2021
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2021-31842
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

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Software From Fixed in
mcafee / endpoint_security - 10.7.0
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-february_2020 10.7.0-february_2020.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-july_2020 10.7.0-july_2020.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-november_2020 10.7.0-november_2020.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-september_2020 10.7.0-september_2020.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-april_2020 10.7.0-april_2020.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-february_2021 10.7.0-february_2021.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-april_2021 10.7.0-april_2021.x
mcafee / endpoint_security 10.7.0-june_2021 10.7.0-june_2021.x