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CVE-2012-4585

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4585 is a file disclosure vulnerability affecting McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) products. Authenticated attackers can exploit this flaw by crafting a malicious URL to read arbitrary files on the affected systems. With a CVSS score of 4.0, this vulnerability is of low severity, requiring authentication (Au:S) but having a low attack complexity (AC:L) and only impacting confidentiality (C:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion, indicating a low current threat.

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

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0094 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 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 0.0 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/2012-03/0163.html
kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index
Vendor Advisory