CVE-2012-4581
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mcafee | email_and_web_security | 5.0 | |
| mcafee | email_and_web_security | 5.5 | |
| mcafee | email_and_web_security | 5.6 | |
| mcafee | email_gateway | 7.0 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-287
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.