CVE-2017-3962 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2018-06-12

Score: 5.6 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

McAfee

Network Security Management (NSM)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`8`	affected	< 8.2.7.42.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:network_security_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-13079	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00047.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10192

History

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Subscriptions

Mcafee Network Security Manager

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published: 2018-06-12T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:39:41.359Z

Reserved: 2016-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-3962

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-12T14:29:00.273

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:26:22.650

Link: CVE-2017-3962

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-916

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