CVE-2015-8986

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (5.5) in mcafee advanced threat defense. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sandbox detection evasion vulnerability in hardware appliances in McAfee (now Intel Security) Advanced Threat Defense (MATD) 3.4.2.32 and earlier allows attackers to detect the sandbox environment, then bypass proper malware detection resulting in failure to detect a malware file (false-negative) via specially crafted malware.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 54% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-254
Published: 2017-03-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:advanced_threat_defense

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10096
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10096

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