CVE-2012-4581

McAfee EWS <5.5.6 & MEG 7.0 <1 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.x before 5.5 Patch 6 and 5.6 before Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0 before Patch 1, does not disable the server-side session token upon the closing of the Management Console/Dashboard, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack sessions by capturing a session cookie and then modifying the response to a login attempt, related to a "Logout Failure" issue.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

EPSS 0.0049
EPSS Percentile 65.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (4)
mcafee/email_and_web_security 5.0
mcafee/email_and_web_security 5.5
mcafee/email_and_web_security 5.6
mcafee/email_gateway 7.0
Published Aug 22, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026