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GHSA-Q8Q6-CCRM-HRM9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-10 00:30 – Updated: 2024-01-10 00:30

Details

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection contains a vulnerability in the email delivery agent that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject improperly encoded HTML into the email body of a message through the email subject. The vulnerability is caused by inappropriate encoding when rewriting the email before delivery.This issue affects Proofpoint Enterprise Protection: from 8.20.2 before patch 4809, from 8.20.0 before patch 4805, from 8.18.6 before patch 4804 and all other prior versions.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2023-5770 (GCVE-0-2023-5770)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-09 22:02 – Updated: 2025-06-03 14:29

Title

HTML injection in email body through email subject

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-08 18:43 UTC

CWE

CWE-838 - Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context

Assigner

Proofpoint mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-a…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Proofpoint	Proofpoint Enterprise Protection	Affected: 8.20.2 , < patch 4809 (semver) Affected: 8.20.0 , < patch 4805 (semver) Affected: 8.18.6 , < patch 4804 (semver) Affected: 8.0 , < 8.18.6 (semver)

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