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CVE-2021-23893

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.15% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-10-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2021-23893
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
0.15%
Windows

Original NVD Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in a Windows system driver of McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) prior to 7.3.0 could allow a local non-admin user to gain elevated system privileges via exploiting an unutilized memory buffer.