CVE-2003-1343 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange (SMEX) versions prior to 3.81 and 6.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to the web management interface by exploiting a backdoor account installed via smg_Smxcfg30.exe, specifically through manipulation of the 'vcc' parameter. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, as it permits unauthenticated attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:scanmail:*:*:microsoft_exchange:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:scanmail:*:*:microsoft_exchange:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.