CVE-2012-4586

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, accesses files with the privileges of the root user, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended permission settings by requesting a file.

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-264

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