CVE-2023-5770

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ProofpointProofpoint Enterprise Protection8.20.2 < patch 4809affected
ProofpointProofpoint Enterprise Protection8.20.0 < patch 4805affected
ProofpointProofpoint Enterprise Protection8.18.6 < patch 4804affected
ProofpointProofpoint Enterprise Protection8.0 < 8.18.6affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-838: CWE-838 Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References