CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-3898

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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 configurations

• mcafee livesafe (<= 16.0.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References