HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-4535

Livesafe vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
9.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Integer signedness error in the AV engine before DAT 8145, as used in McAfee LiveSafe 14.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted packed executable.
Affected vendor
Mcafee
Affected product
Livesafe
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2016-05-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-4535

  • Confirm whether Mcafee Livesafe is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-4535.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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