CVE-2021-31842

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in mcafee endpoint security. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-776
Published: 2021-09-17
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=SB10367
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10367

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