CVE-2004-0235: Clearswift Mailsweeper

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in LHA 1.14 allow remote attackers or local users to create arbitrary files via an LHA archive containing filenames with (1) .. sequences or (2) absolute pathnames with double leading slashes ("//absolute/path").

Affected products

• Clearswift Mailsweeper: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.3.3 only; version 4.3.4 only; …
• F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus: version 4.51 only; version 4.52 only; version 4.60 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.41 only; version 5.42 only; …
• F-Secure F-Secure For Firewalls: version 6.20 only
• F-Secure F-Secure Internet Security: version 2003 only; version 2004 only
• F-Secure F-Secure Personal Express: version 4.5 only; version 4.6 only; version 4.7 only
• F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper: version 6.31 only; version 6.32 only
• RARLAB WinRAR: version 3.20 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_1.0 only
• Red Hat Lha: version 1.14i-9 only
• Sgi Propack: version 2.4 only; version 3.0 only
• Stalker Cgpmcafee: version 3.2 only
• Tsugio Okamoto Lha: version 1.14 only; version 1.15 only; version 1.17 only
• Winzip Winzip: version 9.0 only

Published 2004-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.