CVE-2021-23893 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) versions prior to 7.3.0. A local, non-administrative user can exploit an unutilized memory buffer in a Windows system driver to gain full system privileges. Rated 7.8 HIGH, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and does not require user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 7.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:drive_encryption:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:drive_encryption:7.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.