FKIE_CVE-2017-3898

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-01 13:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
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
secure@intel.comhttp://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mcafee livesafe *
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