CVE-2002-2228: Mailscanner

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MailScanner before 4.0 5-1 and before 3.2 6-1 allows remote attackers to bypass protection via attachments with a filename with (1) extra leading spaces, (2) extra trailing spaces, or (3) alternate character encodings that cannot be processed by MailScanner.

Affected products

• Mailscanner Mailscanner: up to and including 3.2_6-1; up to and including 4.0_4-1

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.