CVE-2017-4028
SB10193 - consumer and corporate products - Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- trellix
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By trellix
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| trellixCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability
- CWE-74 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-74 and its CVEs
Affected products
McAfee · McAfee Anti-Virus Plus (AVP)
- affected 170329 – < 29 Mar 2017
McAfee · McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
- affected 10.2 – < 10.2 DAT V3 DAT 2932.0
McAfee · McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS)
- affected 8.0 – < 8.0 Patch 9 Hotfix 1188590
McAfee · McAfee Internet Security (MIS)
- affected 170329 – < 29 Mar 2017
McAfee · McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
- affected 170329 – < 29 Mar 2017
McAfee · McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE)
- affected 8.8 – < 8.8 Patch 8/9 Hotfix 1187884
References (2)
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10193 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 97958 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-4028)Record last updated .