The Mail Server in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL and V-Series appliances before 8.0.0 uses plaintext credentials, which allows remote attackers t

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• websense triton ap emailup to 7.8.3 inclusive
• websense v-series appliancesup to 7.7 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2015-2767Unspecified vulnerability in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL before 8.0.0 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "Autocomplete Enabled."
  40Plan
• CVE-2015-2763Unspecified vulnerability in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL before 8.0.0 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to port 17703.
  40Plan
• CVE-2017-11177TRITON AP-EMAIL 8.2 before 8.2 IB does not properly restrict file access in an unspecified directory.
  30Monitor
• CVE-2015-2769Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Personal Email Manager (PEM) in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL before 8.0.0 allo
  27Monitor
• CVE-2015-2766The Personal Email Manager (PEM) in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL before 8.0.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a brute force atta
  20Monitor
• CVE-2015-2768Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Websense TRITON AP-EMAIL before 8.0.0 and V-Series 7.7 appliances allows remote attackers to inj
  17Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.