CVE-2017-3898

A man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee LiveSafe (MLS) versions prior to 16.0.3 allows network attackers to modify the Windows registry value associated with the McAfee update via the HTTP backend-response.

CVSS v3.0

5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

3.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Published

2017-09-01

Updated

2024-09-16

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44062

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-3897
• CVE-2017-4011
• CVE-2017-3881
• CVE-2017-4898
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• CVE-2017-4901