CVE-2012-4581: McAfee Email And Web Security

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• McAfee Email And Web Security: version 5.0 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.6 only
• McAfee Email Gateway: version 7.0 only

Published 2012-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.