{"id":"CVE-2023-5552","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-5552","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:17:07.212Z","title":"A password disclosure vulnerability in the Secure PDF eXchange (SPX) feature allows attackers with full email access to decrypt PDFs in Sophos Firewall version 19.5 MR3 (19.5.3) and older, if the password type is set to “Specified by sender”.","description":"A password disclosure vulnerability in the Secure PDF eXchange (SPX) feature allows attackers with full email access to decrypt PDFs in Sophos Firewall version 19.5 MR3 (19.5.3) and older, if the password type is set to “Specified by sender”.","published":"2023-10-18T00:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:48:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-alert@sophos.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200","CWE-522"],"affected":["sophos/firewall"],"epss":{"score":0.00553,"percentile":0.45932,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.55%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20231017-spx-password","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-alert@sophos.com"},{"url":"https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20231017-spx-password","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5552","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}