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CVE-2018-6686
Drive Encryption (MDE) - Authentication Bypass vulnerability
High7.0EPSS 0.24%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
Authentication Bypass vulnerability in TPM autoboot in McAfee Drive Encryption (MDE) 7.1.0 and above allows physically proximate attackers to bypass local security protection via specific set of circumstances.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
- Authentication Bypass vulnerability
- CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee · Drive Encryption (MDE)
- affected 7.1.0 – < 7.1.0*
- affected 7.1.3.634 – < 7.1.3.634
- affected 7.2.0 – < 7.2.0*
- affected 7.2.6 – < 7.2.6
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10242 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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