CVE-2012-4585

MEDIUM 4.0CVE-2012-4585 · Published 22/08/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-4585 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.0) vulnerability affecting email and web security (mcafee), email gateway (mcafee).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.94%, higher than 60.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
email and web security mcafee	`= 5.0= 5.5= 5.6`	No fix yet
email gateway mcafee	`= 7.0`	No fix yet

Description

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 read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0163.html
kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index · Vendor Advisory

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