CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0053

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 fields that use RFC2047 encoding, which may be interpreted differently by mail clients.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to deliver malicious content that could be accepted by security systems, posing a risk to the organization's security.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update security products and to monitor and filter MIME messages to prevent the exploitation of this vulnerability.

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 fields that use RFC2047 encoding, which may be interpreted differently by mail clients.

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