CVE-2017-3898

published 2017-09-01

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…

Priority P3 41 medium 5.9 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC H PR N UI N S U C N I H A N

EXPLOIT

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	live_safe	—	—
mcafee	livesafe	<= 16.0.2	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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