CVE-2016-3984 describes a security bypass vulnerability in multiple McAfee products, including Active Response, Agent, Data Loss Prevention Endpoint, and VirusScan Enterprise, running on Windows. A local administrator can exploit this flaw by modifying specific registry keys to disable the antivirus engine, circumventing self-protection mechanisms. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring high privileges, but allowing for high impact on availability and low impact on integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or KEV listing, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.0.158CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:active_response:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 5.0.2.285CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.0.0.430.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_exchange_layer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:p5:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 9.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:data_loss_prevention_endpoint:*:p1_hf2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.