CVE-2012-4595: McAfee Email And Web Security

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) 5.5 through Patch 6 and 5.6 through Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) 7.0.0 and 7.0.1, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain an admin session ID via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• McAfee Email And Web Security: version 5.5 only; version 5.6 only
• McAfee Email Gateway: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only

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