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CVE-2021-31842

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Published: Sep 17, 2021Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (9)

Mcafee
1 product
Endpoint Security
Configuration A
9 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Mcafee
Endpoint Security
Before 10.7.0
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 april_2020
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 april_2021
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 february_2020
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 february_2021
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 july_2020
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 june_2021
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 november_2020
Endpoint Security
Version 10.7.0 september_2020

Related CWEs

CWE-776
Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
The product 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.

References (2)

Source: trellixpsirt@trellix.com
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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