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FKIE_CVE-2017-3898

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-01 13:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:19

Severity

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	secure@intel.com	http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mcafee	livesafe	*

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CVE-2017-3898 (GCVE-0-2017-3898)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-01 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:35

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Code Injection vulnerability

Assigner

intel mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=103…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
McAfee	Live Safe	Affected: 16.0.3

Date Public

2017-08-31 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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