Auth bypass in Mcafee Email And Web Security
CVE-2012-4581
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.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.012 (65.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mcafee Email_and_web_security — versions 5.0, 5.5, 5.6
- Mcafee Email_gateway — versions 7.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)