CVE-2004-0121

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not sufficiently filter parameters of mailto: URLs when using them as arguments when calling OUTLOOK.EXE, which allows remote attackers to use script code in the Local Machine zone and execute arbitrary programs.

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not sufficiently filter parameters of mailto: URLs when using them as arguments when calling OUTLOOK.EXE, which allows remote attackers to use script code in the Local Machine zone and execute arbitrary programs.

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 20 years ago

2004-04-15 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:33:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office XP

xp

Microsoft Office XP sp1

xp

Microsoft Office XP sp2

xp

Microsoft Outlook 2002

2002

Microsoft Outlook 2002 sp1

2002

Microsoft Outlook 2002 sp2

2002

References

20040310 Outlook mailto: URL argument injection vulnerability

O-096

20040309 Microsoft Outlook "mailto:" Parameter Passing Vulnerability

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#305206

US Government Resource

9827

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

TA04-070A

US Government Resource

MS04-009

outlook-mailtourl-execute-code(15414)

outlook-ms04009-patch(15429)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:843

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