CVE-2004-0284 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

Published: 2004-03-18

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 8.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2003:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.08624.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107643134712133&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9629
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15127

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Ie Internet Explorer Outlook

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-03-18T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:10:03.997Z

Reserved: 2004-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0284

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-11-23T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0284

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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