FKIE_CVE-2017-3960

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-12 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:19
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Exploitation of Authorization vulnerability in the web interface in McAfee Network Security Management (NSM) before 8.2.7.42.2 allows authenticated users to gain elevated privileges via a crafted HTTP request parameter.
References
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10192
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10192
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mcafee network_security_manager *
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          "vendor": "McAfee",
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      ],
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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2017-3960",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:19:11.317",
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