CVE-2017-3898

medium Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
7.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: September 1, 2017 (3176 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

mcafee livesafe

References

🔗 service.mcafee.com 🔗 service.mcafee.com