CVE-2001-1088

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Microsoft Outlook 8.5 and earlier, and Outlook Express 5 and earlier, with the "Automatically put people I reply to in my address book" option enabled, do not notify the user when the "Reply-To" address is different than the "From" address, which could allow an untrusted remote attacker to spoof legitimate addresses and intercept email from the client that is intended for another user.

Microsoft Outlook 8.5 and earlier, and Outlook Express 5 and earlier, with the "Automatically put people I reply to in my address book" option enabled, do not notify the user when the "Reply-To" address is different than the "From" address, which could allow an untrusted remote attacker to spoof legitimate addresses and intercept email from the client that is intended for another user.

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

Type

Microsoft

First reported 24 years ago

2001-06-05 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Outlook 97

97

Microsoft Outlook 98

98

Microsoft Outlook 2000

2000

Microsoft outlook_express 4.0

4.0

Microsoft outlook_express 4.5

4.5

Microsoft outlook_express 4.72.3120

4.72.3120.0

Microsoft outlook_express 5.0

5.0

Microsoft outlook_express 5.5

5.5

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