CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-2228

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2002-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

MailScanner before 4.0 5-1 and before 3.2 6-1 allows remote attackers to bypass protection via attachments with a filename with (1) extra leading spaces, (2) extra trailing spaces, or (3) alternate character encodings that cannot be processed by MailScanner.

Affected configurations

• mailscanner mailscanner (<= 3.2 6-1) • mailscanner mailscanner (<= 4.0 4-1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References