Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3523

Title: Clearswift Mimesweeper For Web Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-3523.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 12, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.57%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3523: Clearswift MIMEsweeper for Web before 5.1.15 Hotfix allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an encrypted archived .RAR file, which triggers a scan error and causes the Web Policy Engine service to terminate.

Impacted Vendors

clearswift 1

Reference Links

http://download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/WebReadMeHotfix5115.htm http://secunia.com/advisories/20998 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2731 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27643 http://download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/WebReadMeHotfix5115.htm http://secunia.com/advisories/20998 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2731 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27643

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:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3523 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.

July 12, 2006 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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.