CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-19680

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-01-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-01-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

A file-extension filtering vulnerability in Proofpoint Enterprise Protection (PPS / PoD), in the unpatched versions of PPS through 8.9.22 and 8.14.2 respectively, allows attackers to bypass protection mechanisms (related to extensions, MIME types, virus detection, and journal entries for transmitted files) by sending malformed (not RFC compliant) multipart email.

Affected configurations

• proofpoint enterprise protection (<= 8.9.22) • proofpoint enterprise protection (<= 8.14.2)

References