CVE-2012-4586

Published Aug 22, 2012

Last updated 12 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 3.5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 6.8
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "66A3B3D7-D6F2-4AE9-89BA-3B39896D6DBE"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C8E57CF1-7D4D-45E9-A74D-51D6C7940F26"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "36F5B0E9-0B28-4DAD-91C9-0E722D79AC46"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_gateway:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "46F5DE96-C4C2-498A-AD79-82BEC9A7DF5B"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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