CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-4581

Improper Authentication

Published: Aug 22, 2012 | Modified: Aug 22, 2012
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Email_and_web_security Mcafee 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Email_and_web_security Mcafee 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Email_and_web_security Mcafee 5.6 (including) 5.6 (including)
Email_gateway Mcafee 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References