CVE-2012-4583

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 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-200

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 obtain the session tokens of arbitrary users by navigating within the Dashboard.

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/2012-03/0161.html
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0161.html
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

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