CVE-2002-1121

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SMTP content filter engines, including (1) GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP before 7.2, (2) InterScan VirusWall before 3.52 build 1494, (3) the default configuration of MIMEDefang before 2.21, and possibly other products, do not detect fragmented emails as defined in RFC2046 ("Message Fragmentation and Reassembly") and supported in such products as Outlook Express, which allows remote attackers to bypass content filtering, including virus checking, via fragmented emails of the message/partial content type.

Affected products

GFI Mailsecurity: 7.2
Network Associates Webshield Smtp: 4.0.5, 4.5, 4.5.44, 4.5.74.0
Roaring Penguin Canit: 1.2
Roaring Penguin Mimedefang: 2.14, 2.20
Trend Micro Interscan Viruswall: 3.5, 3.51, 3.52

References

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