CVE-2019-3663: Unprotected Storage of Credentials vulnerability in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) prior to 4.8 allows local attacker to gain access to the root password…

PriorityP341high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.91%

55.4th percentile

Unprotected Storage of Credentials vulnerability in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) prior to 4.8 allows local attacker to gain access to the root password via accessing sensitive files on the system. This was originally published with a CVSS rating of High, further investigation has resulted in this being updated to Critical. The root password is common across all instances of ATD prior to 4.8. See the Security bulletin for further details

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mcafee	advanced_threat_defense	< 4.8	4.8
mcafee	advanced_threat_defense	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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