CVE-2017-3897: McAfee Livesafe

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• McAfee Livesafe: up to and including 16.0.2
• McAfee Security Scan Plus: up to and including 3.11.599.2

Published 2017-09-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.