VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4584

low
Published 2012-08-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

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 properly encrypt system-backup data, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading a backup file, as demonstrated by obtaining password hashes.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeeemail_and_web_security5.0
mcafeeemail_and_web_security5.5
mcafeeemail_and_web_security5.6
mcafeeemail_gateway7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.