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Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Clear text storage of sensitive Information in memory vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update allows a local user to view ENS settings and credentials via accessing process memory after the ENS administrator has performed specific actions. To exploit this, the local user has to access the relevant memory location immediately after an ENS administrator has made a configuration change through the console on their machine

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 10, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-23878

GHSA ID

GHSA-w82x-g35v-536x

Source code

No known source code

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