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CVE-2018-6223

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6223 describes a critical missing authentication vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to manipulate the appliance registration process, leading to a reset of configuration parameters. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, potentially resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:email_encryption_gateway:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44166 · Feb 22, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1020 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

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

success.trendmicro.com / solution/1119349
PatchVendor Advisory
coresecurity.com / advisories/trend-micro-email-encryption-gateway-multiple-vulnerabilities
ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/44166
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry