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CVE-2012-4582

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
22/08/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_gateway:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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