CVE-2017-3898

5.9 mediumEPSS 3.2%

Medium (5.9) in mcafee livesafe. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

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

EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2017-09-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:livesafe

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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