CVE-2012-4586

2022-10-0316:15:33

mitre

www.cve.org

mcafee email and web security

vulnerability

permission bypass

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.4%

JSON

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.

References

kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020