Proofpoint Enterprise Protection improper filtering of special elements

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Proofpoint Enterprise Protection. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to improper filtering of special elements. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-0431. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Proofpoint Enterprise Protection (version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper filtering of special elements vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-790. The product receives data from an upstream component, but does not filter or incorrectly filters special elements before sending it to a downstream component. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at proofpoint.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-0431 since 01/13/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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CNA Base Score: 5.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper filtering of special elements
CWE: CWE-790 / CWE-184 / CWE-183
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

01/13/2025 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: proofpoint.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-0431 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-0431
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-300104

Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2025 17:55
Changes: 03/19/2025 17:55 (60)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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