CVE-2000-0216

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 24 years ago

2000-02-29 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:03:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft windows_messaging

References

20000229 mailbombing DoS easily exploitable against mail systems using MS mail clients.

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