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CVE-2004-0051

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Clearswift Mailsweeper: 4.3.7, 4.3.8, 4.3.10, 4.3.11, 4.3.13, 4.3.14 (+1)
• F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper: 6.3, 6.4, 6.31, 6.32
• Paul L Daniels Ripmime: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5 (+5)

References

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

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