CVE-2012-4581

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None
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, 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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-4581
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2012-08-22T10:42:04
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2012-08-22T10:42:04
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-287 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_gateway:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020 Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4581
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4581
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:52:56 Added to TrackCVE