CVE-2017-3897 Code injection in Live Safe
Network attackers can execute malicious code via HTTP responses in McAfee Live Safe and Security Scan Plus due to a code injection flaw in authentication.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-3897?
CVE-2017-3897 is a critical code injection vulnerability in McAfee Live Safe, published on 1 Sep 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3897?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Mcafee Livesafe, Mcafee Security Scan Plus.
How do I fix CVE-2017-3897?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3897 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2017-3897 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3897 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in McAfee Live Safe
Sources
Also known as GHSA-872r-73c4-2f6m.