CVE-2019-3663

CRITICAL

Mcafee Advanced Threat Defense - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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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

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars
by funoverip · poc
https://github.com/funoverip/mcafee_atd_CVE-2019-3663

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 62.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-522
Status published

Affected Products (1)

mcafee/advanced_threat_defense < 4.8

Timeline

Published Nov 14, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026