Overview
- Description
- A file-extension filtering vulnerability in Proofpoint Enterprise Protection (PPS / PoD), in the unpatched versions of PPS through 8.9.22 and 8.14.2 respectively, allows attackers to bypass protection mechanisms (related to extensions, MIME types, virus detection, and journal entries for transmitted files) by sending malformed (not RFC compliant) multipart email.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:enterprise_protection:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "8092EE05-7BA8-4642-8801-DEFE297AB63F",
"versionEndIncluding": "8.9.22"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:enterprise_protection:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "01139471-620E-44EB-87D3-B14BCBC67F89",
"versionEndIncluding": "8.14.2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]