Privilege escalation in Mcafee Data Loss Prevention Endpoint

CVE-2021-23887

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.002 (12.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.