Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Express
CVE-2007-2225
A component in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle certain HTTP headers when processing MHTML protocol URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from other Internet Explorer domains, aka "URL Parsing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.250 (97.9th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.250 · newest: 0.250 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Outlook Express — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — versions sp1, sp2
- Microsoft Windows Mail
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-034 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/682825 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471947/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24392 (vdb-entry)
- openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/security/ms07-034.txt
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472002/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- archive.openmya.devnull.jp/2007.06/msg00060.html
- osvdb.org/35345 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-2225?
- CVE-2007-2225 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Express. Published 2007-06-12.
- Is CVE-2007-2225 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.