CVE-2023-5771 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-5771: HTML injection in AdminUI through email subject

Vendor Proofpoint
Product Proofpoint Enterprise Protection
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published November 6, 2023
Last update September 4, 2024
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CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection contains a stored XSS vulnerability in the AdminUI. An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted email with HTML in the subject which triggers XSS when viewing quarantined messages.  This issue affects Proofpoint Enterprise Protection: from 8.20.0 before patch 4796, from 8.18.6 before patch 4795 and all other prior versions.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 6, 2023 CVE published
September 4, 2024 Record updated