CVE-2021-23878

5.0 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (5.0) in mcafee endpoint security. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local user to view ENS settings and credentials via accessing process memory after the ENS administrator has performed specific actions. To exploit this, the local user has to access the relevant memory location immediately after an ENS administrator has made a configuration change through the console on their machine

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.0 medium

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

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-312
Published: 2021-02-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:endpoint_security

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10345
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10345

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