CVE-2012-4581

medium Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
0.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 34% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 22, 2012 (5013 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-287

Affected Products

mcafee email and web securitymcafee email gateway

References

🔗 kc.mcafee.com 🔗 kc.mcafee.com