CVE-2006-0014

Outlook Express vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

23.9%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Windows Address Book (WAB) file containing "certain Unicode strings" and modified length values.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Outlook Express

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-04-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 23.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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