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CVE-2002-2228

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2228 describes a bypass vulnerability in MailScanner versions prior to 4.0 5-1 and 3.2 6-1. Remote attackers could circumvent MailScanner's protection by using malformed attachment filenames containing leading/trailing spaces or alternate character encodings. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact, without requiring authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.2_6-1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.0_4-1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0112 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

iss.net / security_center/static/10609.php
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/6148