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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-5770 EUVD-2023-58053GHSA-q8q6-ccrm-hrm9

HTML injection in email body through email subject

Published Jan 9, 2024 · Updated Jun 3, 2025 · Assigned by Proofpoint

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Proofpoint Proofpoint Enterprise Protection 8.20.2 – < patch 4809, 8.20.0 – < patch 4805, 8.18.6 – < patch 4804, 8.0 – < 8.18.6 patch 4809

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