CVE-2017-3897

Livesafe vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

11.7%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Mcafee

Affected product

Livesafe

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2017-09-01

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 confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-3897

Confirm whether Mcafee Livesafe is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-3897.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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