FKIE_CVE-2012-4582

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-08-22 10:42 - Updated: 2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mcafee email_and_web_security 5.0
mcafee email_and_web_security 5.5
mcafee email_and_web_security 5.6
mcafee email_gateway 7.0
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