CVE-2017-3962: McAfee Network Security Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Password recovery exploitation vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) before 8.2.7.42.2 allows attackers to crack user passwords via unsalted hashes.

Affected products

• McAfee Network Security Manager: before 8.2.7.42.2 (fixed in 8.2.7.42.2)

Published 2018-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.