CVE-2023-5770 (GCVE-0-2023-5770)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-09 22:02
Modified
2025-06-03 14:29
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-838 - Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
Summary
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.
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Proofpoint Proofpoint Enterprise Protection Version: 8.20.2   ≤
Version: 8.20.0   ≤
Version: 8.18.6   ≤
Version: 8.0   ≤
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