CVE-2017-3898

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.9

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-3898

Assigner
secure@intel.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-09-01T13:29:00

Last Modified Date
2019-10-03T00:03:26

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:livesafe::::::::	1	OR		16.0.2

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
HIGH

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.9

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.2

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723	Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3898
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3898

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:26:46				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 20:32:48	2017-09-01T13:29Z	2017-09-01T13:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 20:32:48		2019-10-03T00:03:26	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 20:32:48		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated