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CVE-2017-3898
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-01T13:29:00.537 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:19:09.120

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.

Affected products

mcafee — livesafe

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References

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