Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook
CVE-2004-0501
Outlook 2003 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and cause Outlook to request a URL from a remote site via an HTML e-mail message containing a Vector Markup Language (VML) entity whose src parameter points to the remote site, which could allow remote attackers to know when a message has been read, verify valid e-mail addresses, and possibly leak other information.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.187 (97.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.187 · newest: 0.187 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Outlook — versions 2003
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16116 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10323 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)