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CVE-2018-6229

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6229 describes a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5, specifically within an edit policy script. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands, potentially leading to remote code execution and full system compromise. Despite its CVSS score of 9.8 and high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and publicly available exploit code is limited to a single ExploitDB entry. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

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
10.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44166 · Feb 22, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1044 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

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

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