CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4584
3.5 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
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 properly encrypt system-backup data, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading a backup file, as demonstrated by obtaining password hashes.
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 · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0162.html archives.neohapsis.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020 Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0162.html archives.neohapsis.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020 Vendor Advisory