CVE-2016-8012 Privilege escalation in Data Loss Prevention Endpoint (DLPe)
Authenticated users can inject malicious DLLs into other processes, enabling privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution on Intel DLP Endpoint systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-8012?
CVE-2016-8012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Intel Data Loss Prevention Endpoint (DLPe), published on 14 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Access control vulnerability in Intel Security Data Loss Prevention Endpoint (DLPe) 9.4.200 and 9.3.600 allows authenticated users with Read-Write-Execute permissions to inject hook DLLs into other processes via pages in the target process memory get.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8012?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mcafee Data Loss Prevention Endpoint.
How do I fix CVE-2016-8012?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8012 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2016-8012 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8012 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Intel Data Loss Prevention Endpoint (DLPe)
- CVE-2021-31848 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ePO extension - Cross site scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2021-31849 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) ePO extension - SQL injection
- CVE-2021-31844 Local Privilege Escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
- CVE-2021-23887 Privilege escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
- CVE-2019-3622 DLP Endpoint log file redirection to arbitrary locations
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8p8m-62w6-3xj8.