CVE-2004-0053 describes a vulnerability in multiple content security gateway and antivirus products, including ClearSwift, F-Secure, and Paul L. Daniels solutions. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass content restrictions by crafting MIME messages that utilize RFC2047 encoding, which mail clients may interpret differently than the security products. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, 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, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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