PT-2004-1264 · F Secure+2 · Internet Gatekeeper+2

Published 2004-09-24 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0051

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Content security gateway and antivirus products (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass content restrictions in multiple content security gateway and antivirus products. This is achieved through MIME messages that utilize non-standard but frequently supported Content-Transfer-Encoding values, such as uuencode, mac-binhex40, and yenc. These values may be interpreted differently by various mail clients, leading to potential security bypasses.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0051

Affected Products

Internet Gatekeeper

Mailsweeper

Ripmime

References · 4

• http://uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/380375/mime.htm · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0051 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109517788100063&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17337 · Note