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CVE-2017-4028 — Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows produc

Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows products in McAfee consumer and corporate products allows an administrator to inject arbitrary code into a debugged McAfee process via manipulation of registry parameters.

CVSS
5.0 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.11% (top 70.20%)
CWE
—
Published
2018-04-03T22:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T01:25:40.091Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows products in McAfee consumer and corporate products allows an administrator to inject arbitrary code into a debugged McAfee process via manipulation of registry parameters.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
McAfeeMcAfee AntiVirus Plus (AVP) — 170329
McAfeeMcAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)10.2
McAfeeMcAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS)8.0
McAfeeMcAfee Internet Security (MIS)170329
McAfeeMcAfee Total Protection (MTP)170329
McAfeeMcAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE)8.8

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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