Vulnerability in Mcafee Email And Web Security
CVE-2012-4586
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.
EPSS: 0.009 (56.5th 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)