CVE-2012-4582

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, allows remote authenticated users to reset the passwords of arbitrary administrative accounts via unspecified vectors.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 44.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
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