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CVE-2012-4582

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4582 is a vulnerability affecting 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. It allows remote authenticated users to reset the passwords of arbitrary administrative accounts through unspecified vectors. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a medium severity due to requiring authentication and moderate attack complexity, with potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:email_gateway:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 1,425 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index
Vendor Advisory