Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15 MIME privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component MIME Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2004-0051. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component MIME Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 10/20/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-0051 since 01/14/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (17337). Similar entry is available at VDB-845. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

01/14/2004 🔍
10/20/2004 +280 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +0 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3828 days 🔍
06/21/2018 +1164 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-0051 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0051
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22300
X-Force: 17337 - Multiple vendor MIME Content-Transfer-Encoding bypass filtering

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:21
Updated: 06/21/2018 09:14
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:21 (44), 06/21/2018 09:14 (6)
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Cache ID: 216:799:103

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