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CVE-2004-0161

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 RFC2231 encoding, 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

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