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Vulnerability CVE-2017-3898
Published: 2017-09-01
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.3/10 |
2.9/10 |
8.6/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
Partial |
None |
References: |
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723
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