CVE-2021-31842 (GCVE-0-2021-31842)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-17 13:35
Modified
2024-08-03 23:10
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version
McAfee,LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows Version: unspecified   < 10.7.0 September 2021 Update
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