CVE-2004-1715

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in MIMEsweeper for Web before 5.0.4 allows remote attackers or local users to read arbitrary files via "..\\", "..\", and similar dot dot sequences in the URL.

Affected products

Clearswift Mimesweeper For Web: 4.0, 5.0.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109224211512029&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225567212978&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0408-exploits/clearswift.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/12273
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10918
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16960
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109224211512029&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225567212978&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0408-exploits/clearswift.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/12273
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10918
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16960

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