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CVE-2003-1154

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1154 describes a bypass vulnerability in Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP version 4.3. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a mail message containing a malformed ZIP attachment, allowing them to circumvent the product's virus protection, as demonstrated by certain MIMAIL virus variants. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score is low, indicating minimal current exploitation probability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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

secunia.com / advisories/10148
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13611
computerworld.co.nz / cw.nsf/0/BF9E8E6E2D313E5FCC256DD70016473F
osvdb.org / 2772
securityfocus.com / bid/8982