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CVE-2009-5121

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Websense Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to bypass the sender-based blacklist by using the 8BITMIME EHLO keyword in the SMTP session.

Affected products

• Websense Email Security: 7.1

References

• http://www.websense.com/support/article/t-kbarticle/Hotfix-4-for-Websense-Email-Security-v7-1
• http://www.websense.com/support/article/t-kbarticle/Hotfix-4-for-Websense-Email-Security-v7-1

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