CVE-2022-46334

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection Local Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 21, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Nov 29, 2022

Description

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection (PPS/PoD) contains a vulnerability which allows the pps user to escalate to root privileges due to unnecessary permissions. This affects all versions 8.19.0 and below.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Proofpoint

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
enterprise_protectionProofpoint	8.* through 8.19.0Affectedfrom 8.19.0 patch 4550Not affectedfrom 8.18.6 patch 4549Not affectedfrom 8.13.22 patch 4548Not affected

References

https://www.proofpoint.com/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sa-2022-0004

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