CVE-2004-0284

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-03-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0
Microsoft Outlook: 2002, 2002-sp1, 2002-sp2, 2003

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107643134712133&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9629
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15127
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107643134712133&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9629
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15127

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