CVE-2017-3897

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

A Code Injection vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee Live Safe versions prior to 16.0.3 and McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSS+) versions prior to 3.11.599.3 allows network attackers to perform a malicious file execution via a HTTP backend-response.

Affected products

McAfee Live Safe: through 16.0.2
McAfee Security Scan Plus: through 3.11.599.2

References

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100100
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100100

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