Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-31837

High

Published: 09 June 2021

Published
09 June 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0007 20.6th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-31837 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Mcafee Getsusp. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 20.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Memory corruption vulnerability in the driver file component in McAfee GetSusp prior to 4.0.0 could allow a program being investigated on the local machine to trigger a buffer overflow in GetSusp, leading to the execution of arbitrary code, potentially triggering…

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a BSOD.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mcafee
getsusp
≤ 4.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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