CVE record · CVE-2021-31843

Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee ENS for Windows

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.0031 · 23rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: trellix) at 17 Sept 2021, 13:40 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
McAfee,LLC	McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows	affected unspecified to before 10.7.0 September 2021 Update custom Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2021-31843
CNA: trellix
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Tags: McAfee,LLC McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for WIndows
Path traversal
Published: 17 Sept 2021
Updated: 3 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.3	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (trellix)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0031, the 23rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 17 Sept 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10367 confirm

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