CVE-2004-0501 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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: 2004-06-03

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 50.7% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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 Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.50733.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108430168919965&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108637351805607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=108644231209698&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10323
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16116

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Outlook

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-06-03T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:15.268Z

Reserved: 2004-05-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0501

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-08-18T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2004-0501

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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