CVE-2010-3147

Outlook Express vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

18.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Untrusted search path vulnerability in wab.exe 6.00.2900.5512 in Windows Address Book in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wab32res.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a Windows Address Book (WAB), VCF (aka vCard), or P7C file, aka "Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability." NOTE: the codebase for this product may overlap the codebase for the product referenced in CVE-2010-3143.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Outlook Express

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2010-08-27

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 18.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Outlook Express is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-3147.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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