CVE-2025-0431 (GCVE-0-2025-0431)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-19 16:18
Modified
2025-03-19 17:38
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-790 - Improper Filtering of Special Elements
Summary
Enterprise Protection contains a vulnerability in URL rewriting that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send an email which bypasses URL protections impacting the integrity of recipient's email. This occurs due to improper filtering of backslashes within URLs and affects all versions of 8.21, 8.20 and 8.18 prior to 8.21.0 patch 5115, 8.20.6 patch 5114 and 8.18.6 patch 5113 respectively.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection Version: 8.18.6   ≤
Version: 8.20.6   ≤
Version: 8.21.0   ≤
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