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CVE-2017-7229

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7229 describes a critical vulnerability in Vaultive O365 (versions prior to 4.5.21) where PGP/MIME encrypted messages have their Content-Type header altered, rendering them undecryptable by most mail user agents. This leads to a denial of service for encrypted communications and can result in sensitive information being resent in plaintext, causing information disclosure. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction, potentially leading to high confidentiality and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security professionals.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vaultive:office_365_security:4.5.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

gist.github.com / dkg/a1998c861bf2430e0d01d586905b11cb