{"id":"CVE-2012-4586","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-4586","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:30:56.013Z","title":"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, accesses files with the privileges of the root user, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended…","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, accesses files with the privileges of the root user, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended permission settings by requesting a file.","published":"2012-08-22T10:42:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:45:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.5,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["mcafee/email and web security","mcafee/email gateway"],"epss":{"score":0.00915,"percentile":0.59968,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.92%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4586","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}