CVE-2012-4581

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.21% (68th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USprimary

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
mcafee email and web security= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mcafee email and web security= 5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mcafee email and web security= 5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mcafee email gateway= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-08-22modified 2026-06-16

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references (4)

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