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CVE-2012-4586

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 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, accesses files with the privileges of the root user, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended permission settings by requesting a file.

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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