CVSS 3.1
7.3 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-31841
High (7.3) in mcafee mcafee agent. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A DLL sideloading vulnerability in McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 could allow a local user to perform a DLL sideloading attack with an unsigned DLL with a specific name and in a specific location. This would result in the user gaining elevated permissions and the ability to execute arbitrary code as the system user, through not checking the DLL signature.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-347, CWE-426
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mcafee:mcafee_agent