CVE-2017-3898

5.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Mcafee
Status
Live Safe
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 August 2017

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Live Safe 16.0.3

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS1...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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