CVE-2015-8986: McAfee Advanced Threat Defense

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sandbox detection evasion vulnerability in hardware appliances in McAfee (now Intel Security) Advanced Threat Defense (MATD) 3.4.2.32 and earlier allows attackers to detect the sandbox environment, then bypass proper malware detection resulting in failure to detect a malware file (false-negative) via specially crafted malware.

Affected products

• McAfee Advanced Threat Defense: up to and including 3.4.2.32

Published 2017-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.