CVE-2021-23893

7.8 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.8) in mcafee drive encryption. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2021-10-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:drive_encryption

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10361
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10361

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