CVE-2012-4582 (GCVE-0-2012-4582)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-22 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:42
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Summary
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, allows remote authenticated users to reset the passwords of arbitrary administrative accounts via unspecified vectors.
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