CVE-2012-4581
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 1.2% (68th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-4506)
- Published
- August 22, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4506 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 17, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mcafee / email and web security
- mcafee / email and web security
- mcafee / email and web security
- mcafee / email gateway
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- McAfee Email Gateway L1 - McAfee, Inc. - FIPS 140 2233 - historical
- McAfee Email Gateway L2 - McAfee, Inc. - FIPS 140 2234 - historical
- McAfee Email And Web Security Appliance Version 5.5 Patch 2 - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-143 - archived
References
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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