CVE-2021-23879: McAfee Endpoint Product Removal Tool

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unquoted service path vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Product Removal (EPR) Tool prior to 21.2 allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code, with higher-level privileges, via execution from a compromised folder. The tool did not enforce and protect the execution path. Local admin privileges are required to place the files in the required location.

Affected products

• McAfee Endpoint Product Removal Tool: before 21.2 (fixed in 21.2)

Published 2021-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.