CVE-2012-4586 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) and McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) products, where authenticated users could bypass intended file permissions due to the software accessing files with root privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and has a partial impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.