Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-1477

Title: MAILsweeper for SMTP DoS via PowerPoint attachment

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-1477.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 31, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.60%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-1477: MAILsweeper for SMTP 4.3.6 and 4.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a PowerPoint attachment that either (1) is corrupt or (2) contains "embedded objects."

Impacted Vendors

clearswift 1

Reference Links

http://www.clearswift.com/download/bin/Patches/ReadMe_SMTP_438.htm http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7562 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12052 http://www.clearswift.com/download/bin/Patches/ReadMe_SMTP_438.htm http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7562 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12052

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-1477 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2003 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.