VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3983

high
Published 2016-04-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) before 3.4.8.178 might allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection by leveraging information about the parent process.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeeadvanced_threat_defense{"endIncluding":"3.4.4.142"}

References

CWEs

CWE-345

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.