Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server

CVE-2000-0216

Microsoft email clients in Outlook, Exchange, and Windows Messaging automatically respond to Read Receipt and Delivery Receipt tags, which could allow an attacker to flood a mail system with responses by forging a Read Receipt request that is redirected to a large distribution list.

EPSS: 0.051 (91.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)