CVE-2023-5770CWE-838

HTML injection in email body through email subject

Medium · published January 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00340 · 26.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-838 · Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
Published
2024-01-09T22:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JAN 22:02Z
    HTML injection in email body through email subject
    cvelistv5