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CVE-2023-2818

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-2818 describes an insecure filesystem permission vulnerability in the Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows, affecting all versions prior to 7.14.3. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to disrupt the agent's monitoring capabilities. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5, the vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, leading to a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.14.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:insider_threat_management:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
>= 0, < 7.14.3CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:proofpoint:insider_threat_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0015 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

proofpoint.com / us/security/security-advisories/pfpt-sa-2023-005
Vendor Advisory