CVE-2004-1715

Exp

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.

Published: 2004-08-11 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2004-1715 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.05%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2004-1715

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-1715

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 1.18% 1.05% -0.13%
2 2025-03-29 1.05% 1.18% +0.13%
3 2025-03-19 — 1.05% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-1715

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-1715

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2004-1715

Solution: This was fixed in MIMEsweeper for Web v5.0.4.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-1715

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
clearswift mimesweeper_for_web 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mimesweeper_for_web:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
clearswift mimesweeper_for_web 5.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mimesweeper_for_web:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-1715

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