CVE-2012-4584

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 22, 2012
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 22, 2012

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, does not properly encrypt system-backup data, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading a backup file, as demonstrated by obtaining password hashes.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20120329 NGS00157 Patch Notification: McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance v5.6 - Password hashes can be recovered from a system backup and easily crackedmailing-list
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10020

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