CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-4595

Improper Authentication

Published: Aug 22, 2012 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.5 through Patch 6 and 5.6 through Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0.0 and 7.0.1, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain an admin session ID via unspecified vectors.

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 5.6 5.6
Email_gateway Mcafee 7.0.1 7.0.1
Email_and_web_security Mcafee 5.5 5.5
Email_gateway Mcafee 7.0.0 7.0.0

Potential Mitigations

References