CVE-2024-10635 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-10635

Enterprise Protection S/MIME Opaque Signature Attachment Scanning Bypass

Vulnerability 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 Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Enterprise Protection
Vulnerable Versions:
8.18.6, 8.20.6, 8.21.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 28th, 2025
Last Modified: October 6th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-754

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection