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CVE-2004-0051
Multiple content security gateway and antivirus products allow remote attackers to bypass content restrictions via MIME messages that use…
High7.5EPSS 2.4%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 20040914 Corsaire Security Advisory - Multiple vendor MIME Content-Transfer-Encoding mechanism issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- mime-contenttransfer-filter-bypass(17337) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/380375/mime.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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