3.7
LOW
CVE-2019-20634
Proofpoint Email Protection Reverse Engineering Vulnerability
Description

An issue was discovered in Proofpoint Email Protection through 2019-09-08. By collecting scores from Proofpoint email headers, it is possible to build a copy-cat Machine Learning Classification model and extract insights from this model. The insights gathered allow an attacker to craft emails that receive preferable scores, with a goal of delivering malicious emails.

INFO

Published Date :

March 30, 2020, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 19, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

1.4

Exploitability Score :

2.2
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-20634 has a 3 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-20634 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Proofpoint email_protection
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-20634.

URL Resource
https://github.com/moohax/Proof-Pudding Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/moohax/Talks/blob/master/slides/DerbyCon19.pdf Third Party Advisory
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/CVE-2019-20634 Vendor Advisory
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sn-2020-0001 Vendor Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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gmh5225/Awesome-ML-Security_

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Updated: 1 year, 6 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 8, 2023, 4:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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trailofbits/awesome-ml-security

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machine-learning

Updated: 3 months ago
87 stars 12 fork 12 watcher
Born at : May 5, 2023, 4:18 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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moohax/Proof-Pudding

Copy cat model for Proofpoint

adversarial-attacks adversarial-machine-learning offensive-machine-learning proofpoint

Python

Updated: 3 months ago
75 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : Sept. 9, 2019, 1:51 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-20634 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-20634 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 19, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 MITRE AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 27, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sn-2020-0001 No Types Assigned https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sn-2020-0001 Vendor Advisory
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Jul. 21, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-20 CWE-697
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 27, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sn-2020-0001 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 05, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
    Removed CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/CVE-2019-20634 No Types Assigned https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/CVE-2019-20634 Vendor Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.proofpoint.com/us/security/CVE-2019-20634 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 02, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/moohax/Proof-Pudding No Types Assigned https://github.com/moohax/Proof-Pudding Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/moohax/Talks/blob/master/slides/DerbyCon19.pdf No Types Assigned https://github.com/moohax/Talks/blob/master/slides/DerbyCon19.pdf Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-20
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:email_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 2019-09-08
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-20634 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-20634 weaknesses.

CAPEC-3: Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters CAPEC-6: Argument Injection Argument Injection CAPEC-7: Blind SQL Injection Blind SQL Injection CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-15: Command Delimiters Command Delimiters CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-41: Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads CAPEC-43: Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers CAPEC-44: Overflow Binary Resource File Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-52: Embedding NULL Bytes Embedding NULL Bytes CAPEC-53: Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash CAPEC-64: Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-67: String Format Overflow in syslog() String Format Overflow in syslog() CAPEC-71: Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-73: User-Controlled Filename User-Controlled Filename CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-79: Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-80: Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-88: OS Command Injection OS Command Injection CAPEC-92: Forced Integer Overflow Forced Integer Overflow CAPEC-120: Double Encoding Double Encoding CAPEC-182: Flash Injection Flash Injection CAPEC-267: Leverage Alternate Encoding Leverage Alternate Encoding
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.24 }} 0.06%

score

0.61698

percentile

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