CVE-2017-4028

Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows products in McAfee consumer and corporate products allows an administrator to inject arbitrary code into a debugged McAfee process via manipulation of registry parameters.

CVSS 5.0 · Medium

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Metadata

Canonical fields

NVD status

Unavailable

Published

Apr 3, 2018

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Official record

Authoritative NVD record

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE IDs

Vendor classifications

How this vector reads

CVSS 3.0 base metrics decoded below. This explanation does not recalculate or change the NVD score.

Attack Vector (AV): Local. The attacker needs local access to the vulnerable system.
Attack Complexity (AC): High. Successful exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
Privileges Required (PR): High. The attacker needs significant administrative privileges.
User Interaction (UI): Required. Another user must take an action for exploitation to succeed.
Scope (S): Changed. Impacts can cross into a different security authority.
Confidentiality Impact (C): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Integrity Impact (I): High. There is a total or serious impact to this security property.
Availability Impact (A): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.

Signals

Exploitation indicators

0 stored signals · no KEV · 0 OTX pulses