CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-31842

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Sep 17, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Endpoint_security Mcafee * 10.7.0 (excluding)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-april_2020 (including) 10.7.0-april_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-april_2021 (including) 10.7.0-april_2021 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-february_2020 (including) 10.7.0-february_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-february_2021 (including) 10.7.0-february_2021 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-july_2020 (including) 10.7.0-july_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-june_2021 (including) 10.7.0-june_2021 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-november_2020 (including) 10.7.0-november_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-september_2020 (including) 10.7.0-september_2020 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References