🛡️ CVE-2023-5770 — 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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• 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: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-5770 is classified as CWE-838: Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context. The product uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.

Affected software

CVE-2023-5770 is recorded against 1 package.

• enterprise-protection

Timeline and source

Published on 9 January 2024 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-2023-5771 (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)
• CVE-2022-46332 (9.6 Critical, published 6 Dec 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-838: Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context) in other software:

• CVE-2024-34006 (5.0 Medium, published 31 May 2025)
• CVE-2025-4052 (9.8 Critical, published 5 May 2025)
• CVE-2024-11702 (7.5 High, published 26 Nov 2024)
• CVE-2023-6512 (6.5 Medium, published 6 Dec 2023)
• CVE-2023-3735 (4.3 Medium, published 1 Aug 2023)
• CVE-2019-18981 (9.5 Critical, published 24 May 2022)

Details

Affected Packages

References