🛡️ CVE-2022-46332 — enterprise-protection

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-46332 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-46332 is recorded against 1 package.

• enterprise-protection (fixed in 8.19.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.proofpoint.com
www.proofpoint.com

Other advisories for this package

enterprise-protection has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2024-10635 (6.1 Medium, published 28 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2023-5770 (5.3 Medium, published 9 Jan 2024)
• CVE-2023-5771 (6.1 Medium, published 6 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2023-0090 (9.8 Critical, published 8 Mar 2023)
• CVE-2023-0089 (8.8 High, published 8 Mar 2023)
• CVE-2022-46334 (7.8 High, published 21 Dec 2022)
• CVE-2022-46333 (7.2 High, published 6 Dec 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS)) in other software:

• CVE-2011-4924 (published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-1000482 (published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-20182 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2021-3988 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-1000426 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2018-25045 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-2209 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2014-0157 (published 6 Jul 2026)

Details

Affected Packages

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