CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4595
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.5 through Patch 6 and 5.6 through Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0.0 and 7.0.1, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain an admin session ID via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• mcafee email and web security 5.5
• mcafee email and web security 5.6
• mcafee email gateway 7.0.0
• mcafee email gateway 7.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027444 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77977 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10026 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027444 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77977 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10026 Vendor Advisory