PT-2018-7312 · Mcafee · Mcafee Network Security Management

Published 2018-06-12 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-3962

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) versions prior to 8.2.7.42.2

Description: The issue concerns a password recovery exploitation vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism. This vulnerability allows attackers to crack user passwords via unsalted hashes.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 8.2.7.42.2, update to version 8.2.7.42.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-916

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-3962

Affected Products

Mcafee Network Security Management

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3962 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-3962 · Vendor Advisory
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10192 · Note