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CVE-2024-38020: Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability

Affected products

• Microsoft 365 Apps: all versions
• Microsoft Office: 2016, 2019
• Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021: 2021
• Microsoft Outlook: 2016
• Microsoft 365 Apps: from 16.0.1 before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases — fixed in https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
• Microsoft Office LTSC 2021: from 16.0.1 before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases — fixed in https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
• Microsoft Office: from 19.0.0 before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases — fixed in https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
• Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac: from 16.0.0.0 before 16.0.5456.1000 — fixed in 16.0.5456.1000

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Microsoft 365 Apps https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases; Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases; Microsoft Office https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases; Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac 16.0.5456.1000. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38020
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38020

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