Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15 MIME privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component MIME Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2004-0052. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Clearswift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.15. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component MIME 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple content security gateway and antivirus products allow remote attackers to bypass content restrictions via MIME messages that use non-standard separator characters, or use standard separators incorrectly, within MIME headers, fields, parameters, or values, which may be interpreted differently by mail clients.

The weakness was released 10/20/2004 by Martin O'Neal with Corsaire (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-0052 since 01/14/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17334) and SecurityFocus (BID 11157†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-22299, VDB-22302 and VDB-22304. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Productinfo

Vendor

Clearswift

Name

MAILsweeper

Version

License

commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.4
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Exploitinginfo

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

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Status: Unproven

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/14/2004 🔍
09/13/2004 +243 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +37 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +0 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3828 days 🔍
06/21/2018 +1164 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Martin O'Neal
Organization: Corsaire
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0052 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0052
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22301
X-Force: 17334 - Multiple vendor MIME separator bypass filtering
SecurityFocus: 11157 - Multiple Vendor MIME Encapsulation Content Checking Filter Bypass Vulnerabilities

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:21
Updated: 06/21/2018 09:14
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:21 (46), 06/21/2018 09:14 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:84C:103

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