CVE-2012-4595

high
Published 2012-08-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

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.

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=SB10026

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeeemail_and_web_security5.5
mcafeeemail_and_web_security5.6
mcafeeemail_gateway7.0.0
mcafeeemail_gateway7.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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