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CVE-2004-0052

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0052 describes a bypass vulnerability affecting multiple content security gateway and antivirus products, including Clearswift, F-Secure, and Paul L. Daniels solutions. The flaw allows remote attackers to circumvent content restrictions by crafting MIME messages with non-standard or incorrectly used separator characters in MIME headers, fields, parameters, or values, which mail clients may interpret differently. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0238 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17334
uniras.gov.uk / vuls/2004/380375/mime.htm
Vendor Advisory