CVE-2024-10635 (GCVE-0-2024-10635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-28 20:36 – Updated: 2025-10-06 20:51
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Summary
Enterprise Protection contains an improper input validation vulnerability in attachment defense that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass attachment scanning security policy by sending a malicious S/MIME attachment with an opaque signature. When opened by a recipient in a downstream email client, the malicious attachment could cause partial loss of integrity and confidentiality to their system.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
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Vendor Product Version
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection Affected: 8.18.6 , < patch 5110 (semver)
Affected: 8.20.6 , < patch 5134 (semver)
Affected: 8.21.0 , < patch 5112 (semver)
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