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Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Sep 1, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-3898

CVE-2017-3898

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.

Affected products

2
  • cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:livesafe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <=16.0.2
  • McAfee/Live Safev5
    Range: 16.0.3

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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