CVE-2017-3898

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 3.18%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-09-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE

CVE-2017-3898

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS

5.9

EPSS

3.18%

Windows

Original Filing — NVD 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.