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CVE-2012-4582

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% 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-264

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.

Affected products

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

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

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