CVE-2018-6224
A lack of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an attacker to submit authenticated requests to a user browsing an attacker-controlled domain.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 2.1%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
A lack of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an attacker to submit authenticated requests to a user browsing an attacker-controlled domain.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.11% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 22 February 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- trendmicro/email encryption gateway
- Source
- security@trendmicro.com
EPSS 2.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1119349Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/trend-micro-email-encryption-gateway-multiple-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44166/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1119349Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/trend-micro-email-encryption-gateway-multiple-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44166/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.