CVE-2012-4582: McAfee Email And Web Security

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.9% 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, allows remote authenticated users to reset the passwords of arbitrary administrative accounts via unspecified vectors.

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.