CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4581

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-08-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-08-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-287

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References