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GHSA-93HF-XXFJ-6GX3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:14 – Updated: 2022-05-24 19:14

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2021-31842 (GCVE-0-2021-31842)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-17 13:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:10

Summary

Severity

5 (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')

Assigner

trellix mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=conten…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
McAfee,LLC	McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows	Affected: unspecified , < 10.7.0 September 2021 Update (custom)

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