Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1715

Title: MIMEsweeper for Web directory traversal arbitrary file read

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-1715.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 11, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1715: Directory traversal vulnerability in MIMEsweeper for Web before 5.0.4 allows remote attackers or local users to read arbitrary files via "..\\", "..\", and similar dot dot sequences in the URL.

Impacted Vendors

clearswift 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109224211512029&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225567212978&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0408-exploits/clearswift.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12273 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10918 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16960 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109224211512029&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225567212978&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0408-exploits/clearswift.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12273 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10918 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16960

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-1715 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.

August 11, 2004 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:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.