CVE-2006-3523: Clearswift Mimesweeper For Web

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Clearswift Mimesweeper For Web: up to and including 5.1.14

Published 2006-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.