CVE-2001-0999

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Outlook Express 6.00 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script by embedding SCRIPT tags in a message whose MIME content type is text/plain, contrary to the expected behavior that text/plain messages will not run script.

Outlook Express 6.00 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script by embedding SCRIPT tags in a message whose MIME content type is text/plain, contrary to the expected behavior that text/plain messages will not run script.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-12 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft outlook_express 6.0

6.0

References

20010912 FREAK SHOW: Outlook Express 6.00

Vendor Advisory

20010915 Proof-Of-Concept Perl Script for Bugtraq-ID: #3334

Vendor Advisory

3334

Vendor Advisory

outlook-express-text-script-execution(7118)

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