CVE-2002-1121
SMTP content filter engines, including (1) GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP before 7.2, (2) InterScan VirusWall before 3.52 build 1494,…
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- mitre
Description
SMTP content filter engines, including (1) GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP before 7.2, (2) InterScan VirusWall before 3.52 build 1494, (3) the default configuration of MIMEDefang before 2.21, and possibly other products, do not detect fragmented emails as defined in RFC2046 ("Message Fragmentation and Reassembly") and supported in such products as Outlook Express, which allows remote attackers to bypass content filtering, including virus checking, via fragmented emails of the message/partial content type.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.7% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 20020912 Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with a Flick of a Button (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 20020912 Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with a Flick of a Button (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020912 Roaring Penguin fixes for "Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with a Flick of a Button" (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- smtp-content-filtering-bypass(10088) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5YP0A0K8CM.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20020912 MIMEDefang update (was Re: Bypassing SMTP Content Protection ) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#836088 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 5696 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20020912 FW: Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with a Flick of a Button (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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