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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2024-10635 EUVD-2024-54529GHSA-47r3-rvvm-8c7f

Enterprise Protection S/MIME Opaque Signature Attachment Scanning Bypass

Published Apr 28, 2025 · Updated Oct 6, 2025 · Assigned by Proofpoint

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection 8.18.6 – < patch 5110, 8.20.6 – < patch 5134, 8.21.0 – < patch 5112 patch 5110

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