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A vulnerability was found in Clearswift MAILsweeper 4.3.15. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component ZIP Archive Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0929. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Clearswift MAILsweeper 4.3.15 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component ZIP Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Clearswift MAILsweeper before 4.3.15 does not properly detect and filter ZIP 6.0 encoded files, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended policy.

The weakness was shared 09/28/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at corsaire.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0929 since 11/05/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14360 (MAILsweeper Archive File Filtering Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 4.3.15 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (14360), SecurityFocus (BID 10940†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-5273†). The entries VDB-22243 and VDB-22245 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Clearswift

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• MAILsweeper

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• 4.3.15

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• commercial

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