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CVE-2017-3898

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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

• McAfee Live Safe: through 16.0.2

References

• http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723
• http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723

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