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CVE-2017-3962
McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) - Password recovery exploitation vulnerability
Medium5.6EPSS 0.35%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Weakness
- Password recovery exploitation vulnerability
- CWE-916 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-916 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee · Network Security Management (NSM)
- affected 8 – < 8.2.7.42.2
References (1)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10192 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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