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Medium Severity

Attachment: ICS file with non-Gregorian calendar scale

Description

Detects ICS calendar attachments that use a non-standard calendar scale other than GREGORIAN, which may indicate malicious calendar files attempting to exploit calendar parsing vulnerabilities or bypass security filters.

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Sublime Security
Created Nov 4th, 2025 • Last updated Nov 4th, 2025
Source
type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (
          .file_extension in~ ('ics')
          or .content_type in ("application/ics", "text/calendar")
        )
        and not strings.icontains(beta.file.parse_ics(.).scale, 'GREGORIAN')
)
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