CVE-2018-6225
An XML external entity injection (XXE) vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an authenticated user to…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An XML external entity injection (XXE) vulnerability in Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 could allow an authenticated user to expose a normally protected configuration script.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 (Build 1111.00) - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44166webapps, jsppublished 22 Feb 2018Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44166 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By trendmicro
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
Trend Micro · Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway
- affected 5.5
References
3
- 44166 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1119349 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/trend-micro-email-encryption-gateway-multiple-vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-17986 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-6225)Record last updated .