CVE-2012-4581

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

McAfee Email And Web Security: 5.0, 5.5, 5.6
Intel McAfee Email Gateway (MEG): 7.0

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

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