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Medium severity5.0NVD Advisory· Published Sep 17, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-31842

CVE-2021-31842

Description

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.

Affected products

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  • McAfee/Endpoint Security10 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*+ 9 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*range: <10.7.0
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:april_2020:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:april_2021:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:february_2020:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:february_2021:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:july_2020:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:june_2021:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:november_2020:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security:10.7.0:september_2020:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: unspecified
  • McAfee/Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windowsllm-fuzzy
    Range: <10.7.0 September 2021 Update

Patches

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