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CVE-2002-2228

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

MailScanner before 4.0 5-1 and before 3.2 6-1 allows remote attackers to bypass protection via attachments with a filename with (1) extra leading spaces, (2) extra trailing spaces, or (3) alternate character encodings that cannot be processed by MailScanner.

Affected products

• mailscanner: through 3.2_6-1; through 4.0_4-1

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10609.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6148
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10609.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6148

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