PT-2022-10039

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Proofpoint Enterprise Protection versions prior to 18.8.0 Description The issue allows a bypass of a security control. Recommendations For versions prior to 18.8.0, update to version 18.8.0 or later to resolve the issue...

CVE-2021-31608: Protection Mechanism Failure

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection before 18.8.0 allows a Bypass of a Security Control...

CVE-2021-31608

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection before 18.8.0 allows a Bypass of a Security Control...

CVE-2021-31608

CVE-2021-31608 affects Proofpoint Enterprise Protection prior to 18.8.0 and enables bypass of a security control. The available documents state the impact as a bypass but do not provide root-cause details, exploit steps, or a confirmed fix/version, and the exploitation status is not specified. CV...

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection security vulnerabilities

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection is an application from Proofpoint USA. It provides functionality to protect e-mail. A security vulnerability exists in Proofpoint Enterprise Protection that stems from a security mechanism that can be bypassed...

CVE-2021-31608

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection before 18.8.0 allows a Bypass of a Security Control...

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The vulnerability of the Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows software is related to the use of a potentially dangerous function. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges...

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CVE-2022-25294

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows relies on an inherently dangerous function that could enable an unprivileged local Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. All versions prior to 7.12.1 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

CVE-2022-25294

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows relies on an inherently dangerous function that could enable an unprivileged local Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. All versions prior to 7.12.1 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

Code injection

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows relies on an inherently dangerous function that could enable an unprivileged local Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. All versions prior to 7.12.1 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server security vulnerability

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server is a server-side application from U.S.-based Proofpoint, Inc. that is used to prevent malicious operations by enterprise insiders. A security vulnerability exists in the Windows-based Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent prior to version 7.12.1 th...

CVE-2022-25294

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows relies on an inherently dangerous function that could enable an unprivileged local Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. All versions prior to 7.12.1 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

CVE-2022-25294

CVE-2022-25294 affects the Windows agent of Proofpoint Insider Threat Management. The vulnerability arises because the component relies on an inherently dangerous function, enabling an unprivileged local Windows user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. All versions prior to 7.12.1 a...