CVE-2017-3898

MEDIUM 5.9CVE-2017-3898 · Published 01/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-3898 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability affecting livesafe (mcafee).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
livesafe mcafee	`≤ 16.0.2`	No fix yet

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.

References

service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx · Vendor Advisory

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