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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

CVE-2021-23887

Description

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.

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