CVE-2012-4582 — 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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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

Published Aug 22, 2012

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.85%

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 reset the passwords of arbitrary administrative accounts via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.85% 0.00852

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00852

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.85% (0.00852)	56.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.85% (0.00852)	53.28th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.16% (0.00157)	34.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.12% (0.00116)	46.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.12% (0.00119)	44.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0160.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 22, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 22, 2012

Link CVE-2012-4582

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-4582

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-4582