CVE-2012-4586

2012-08-2210:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

mcafee email and web security

vulnerability

permission bypass

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

44.4%

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