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CVE-2012-4588

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% 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-255

Description

McAfee Enterprise Mobility Manager (EMM) Agent before 4.8 and Server before 10.1 record all invalid usernames presented in failed login attempts, and place them on a list of accounts that an administrator may wish to unlock, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive list size in the EMM Database) via a long sequence of login attempts with different usernames.

Affected products

• McAfee Enterprise Mobility Manager: through 4.7
• McAfee Enterprise Mobility Manager Agent: through 10.0

References

• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10021
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10021

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