CVE-2021-31853: McAfee Drive Encryption

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DLL Search Order Hijacking Vulnerability in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) prior to 7.3.0 HF2 (7.3.0.183) allows local users to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges via execution from a compromised folder.

Affected products

• McAfee Drive Encryption: from 7.2.0, up to and including 7.2.10; version 7.3.0 only

Published 2021-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.