CVE-2012-4581

no score yetEPSS 1.2%

mcafee: no CVSS score yet. 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.

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 68% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2012-08-22
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:email_and_web_security
mcafee:email_gateway

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

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