CVE-2012-4597: McAfee Email And Web Security

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in 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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the McAfee Security Appliance Management Console/Dashboard.

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.