fkie_cve-2021-31842
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2021-09-17 14:15
Modified
2024-11-21 06:06
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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  "id": "CVE-2021-31842",
  "lastModified": "2024-11-21T06:06:20.300",
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