CVE-2025-0431

March 19, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

5.8
Medium

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Proofpoint
  • Enterprise Protection
  • 8.21, 8.20, 8.18

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-790
Improper Filtering of Special Elements
The product receives data from an upstream component, but does not filter or incorrectly filters special elements before sending it to a downstream component.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a proofpoint enterprise_protection 8.21 / / / / / / /
a proofpoint enterprise_protection 8.20 / / / / / / /
a proofpoint enterprise_protection 8.18 / / / / / / /

CVSS Score

5.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: March 19, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: March 19, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@proofpoint.com

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