CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0051

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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 uuencode, mac-binhex40, and yenc.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to send malicious content that may be interpreted differently by mail clients, posing a security risk to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update security products and configure them to block non-standard Content-Transfer-Encoding values.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS