CVE-2024-10635

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

28/04/2025

Last modified:

10/05/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.10

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:enterprise_protection:8.18.6::::-:::
cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:enterprise_protection:8.20.6::::-:::
cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:enterprise_protection:8.21.0::::-:::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sa-2025-0002