CVE-2019-3663
Unprotected Storage of Credentials vulnerability in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) prior to 4.8 allows local attacker to gain access to the root password via accessing sensitive files on the system.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.91%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Unprotected Storage of Credentials vulnerability in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) prior to 4.8 allows local attacker to gain access to the root password via accessing sensitive files on the system. This was originally published with a CVSS rating of High, further investigation has resulted in this being updated to Critical. The root password is common across all instances of ATD prior to 4.8. See the Security bulletin for further details
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.91% probability · 58th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-522
- Affected
- mcafee/advanced threat defense
- Source
- trellixpsirt@trellix.com
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.