CVE-2004-0161 (GCVE-0-2004-0161)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-24 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10
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Summary
Multiple content security gateway and antivirus products allow remote attackers to bypass content restrictions via MIME messages that use RFC2231 encoding, which may be interpreted differently by mail clients.
Severity ?
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CWE
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