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CVE-2012-4014

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4014 is an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability affecting McAfee Email Anti-virus (formerly WebShield SMTP) and McAfee Email and Web Security. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it is considered highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a complete denial of service with low attack complexity. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there any evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_and_web_security:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

jvndb.jvn.jp / jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000086
jvn.jp / en/jp/JVN50701493/index.html