Bypassing Content Restrictions via Non-Standard Content-Transfer-Encoding Values

CVE-2004-0051 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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