9.8crit
CVE-2017-3897in critical feed1 exploit
A Code Injection vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee Live Safe versions prior to 16.0.3 and McAfe…
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
11.7%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB
Summary
A Code Injection vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee Live Safe versions prior to 16.0.3 and McAfee Security Scan Plus (MSS+) versions prior to 3.11.599.3 allows network attackers to perform a malicious file execution via a HTTP backend-response.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
11.68% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.
Exploits and detections
- EDB-44067 McAfee Security Scan Plus - Remote Command Execution · remote · 2017-07-30
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Affected products
- McAfee Live Safe
- McAfee Security Scan Plus
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
References
- securityfocus.com /bid/100100 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
- service.mcafee.com /FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS102723 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-3897
- NVD: CVE-2017-3897
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