CVE-2009-5121: Websense Email Security

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Websense Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to bypass the sender-based blacklist by using the 8BITMIME EHLO keyword in the SMTP session.

Affected products

• Websense Websense Email Security: version 7.1 only

Published 2012-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.