CVE-2004-0501

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Outlook 2003 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and cause Outlook to request a URL from a remote site via an HTML e-mail message containing a Vector Markup Language (VML) entity whose src parameter points to the remote site, which could allow remote attackers to know when a message has been read, verify valid e-mail addresses, and possibly leak other information.

Affected products

Microsoft Outlook: 2003

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108430168919965&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108637351805607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=108644231209698&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10323
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16116
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108430168919965&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108637351805607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=108644231209698&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10323
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16116

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