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CVE-2017-3897 (GCVE-0-2017-3897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-01 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:57
VLAI
Summary
A Code Injection vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee Live Safe versions prior to 16.0.3 and McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSS+) versions prior to 3.11.599.3 allows network attackers to perform a malicious file execution via a HTTP backend-response.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Code Injection vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
McAfee Live Safe Affected: 16.0.3
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McAfee Security Scan Plus Affected: 3.11.599.3
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Date Public
2017-08-31 00:00
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