CVE-2012-4584

lowpriority · track · 14EPSS 0.009 · 58 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.85% (58th) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

5 products

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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 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.

cvss

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

3.5

010

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

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v2.03lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USprimary

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 (6)

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