CVE-2021-31842 is a vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security
Published on September 17, 2021
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2021-31842 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a XEE Vulnerability?
The software uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities. If the DTD contains a large number of nested or recursive entities, this can lead to explosive growth of data when parsed, causing a denial of service.
CVE-2021-31842 has been classified to as a XEE vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2021-31842
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Affected Versions
McAfee,LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows:- Version unspecified and below 10.7.0 September 2021 Update is affected.
Exploit Probability
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