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CVE-2004-0051

Published: Sep 24, 2004Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-Other
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.4%
Top 18.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Multiple content security gateway and antivirus products allow remote attackers to bypass content restrictions via MIME messages that use non-standard but frequently supported Content-Transfer-Encoding values such as (1) uuencode, (2) mac-binhex40, and (3) yenc, which may be interpreted differently by mail clients.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

mailsweeperclearswift
On-prem
Security Products / secure-gateway-vpn
internet gatekeeperf-secureSecurity Products
ripmimepaul l daniels
On-prem
Communications / email-server-client
n/an/a
clearswiftcommercialGBSecurity Products
f-securecommercialFISecurity Productsaka fsecure, f-secure
paul l danielsindividual-devCommunicationsaka ripmime, inflex, signaturedb

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109517788100063&w=2
marc.info
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/380375/mime.htm
uniras.gov.uk
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17337
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

Timeline

Published
Sep 24, 2004
Last Updated
Apr 16, 2026

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