CVE-2004-0051

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17337

http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/380375/mime.htm

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109517788100063&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-10-20

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00341